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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
As a work of political philosophy without a conventional narrative, "On Liberty" does not have an actual physical setting to the arguments that take place within—but it is absolutely a product of its historical setting, in the midst of the industrial revolution and in the aftermath of the Enlightenment. Mill's ideas reflect the newfound exaltation of the individual present in much of the philosophy from the 18th and 19th centuries.
