Mind, body, motion, matter : eighteenth-century British and French literary perspectives

Mind, body, motion, matter : eighteenth-century British and French literary perspectives / edited by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway.

"Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world--mechanistic materialism and vitalism--in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the t...

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Main Author: McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Conway, Alison Margaret (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Series:Knowledge Unlatched.
Open Access e-Books.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Aesthetics in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Materialism in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Vitalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics in literature
English literature
French literature
Materialism in literature
Philosophy in literature
Vitalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack
  • Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick
  • Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez
  • Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran
  • Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth
  • The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig
  • The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. Tunstall
  • Diderot's Brain / Joanna Stalnaker
  • Conclusion: Can aesthestics overcome instrumental reason? The need for judgement in Mandeville's Fable of the bees / Vivasvan Soni.

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