Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Mcmurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison

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Produktbeschreibung

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781442650114
• ISBN-10: 1442650117
• Artikelnr.: 42752890

Autorenporträt

Edited by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mary Helen McMurran
Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
1 Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics
Ruth Mack
2 Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England
Jonathan Kramnick
3 Reading Locke After Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular
Genealogy of Religious Tolerance
David Alvarez
4 Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvages
Mary Helen McMurran
Part Two: Materialisms
5 Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in
Motion
Sara Landreth
6 The Persistence of Clarissa
Sarah Ellenzweig
7 The Early-Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomology Imaginary
Kate E. Tunstall
8 Diderot’s Brain
Joanna Stalnaker
Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for
Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees
Vivasvan Soni