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Introduction: dialogue and Enlightenment; Part I. Strains ofEnlightenment: 1. Shaftesbury's characteristic genres: concepts of criticismin the early eighteenth century; 2. Shaftesbury's The Moralists: a dialogueupon dialogue; 3. Berkeley and the paradoxes of empiricism: A Treatiseconcerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues betweenHylas and Philonous; 4. Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Christian Cicero; 5.Hume and the end of religious dialogue: Dialogues concerning NaturalReligion; Part II. Dialogue, aesthetics and the novel: 6. The Platonicrevival: 1740-1770; 7. Anti-Platonism and the novelistic character; 8. Deadconversations: Richard Hurd's late poetics of dialogue; 9. Utopia orconversation: transforming dialogue in Johnson and Austen; Epilogue: somedialectics of Enlightenment.