NOTES
1. The epistemological problems posed by apparition narratives are touched on by Michael McKeon in The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 83–87, and discussed (with regard to some nineteenth-century novels) by Srdjan Smajić, “Supernatural Realism,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42.1 (Spring 2009): 1–22.
2. On the effect of example, see Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: The Liberty Fund, 2004), 74–75.
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