Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat

This book examines the cult of the deathbed scene in eighteenth-century Britain and France, exploring the three currents of Enlightenment thought implicit in the deathbed "projects" of Hume, Johnson, and Marat. The book describes the response of Boswell, Burke, Smith, and Gibbon to Johnson's and Hume's projects: it also considers the complex relations between reformist and transformist thought in Britain during the last three decades of the century.Stephen Miller is the author of 'Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat' with ISBN 9780838754818 and ISBN 0838754813.