Rowan Boyson

The Poetic Enlightenment

Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - anthropology, linguistics, psychology - the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781138662247
• ISBN-10: 1138662240
• Artikelnr.: 45331276

Autorenporträt

Tom Jones, Rowan Boyson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 General Introduction
Tom Jones
Rowan Boyson; Chapter 1a Introduction to Part I: Poetic Knowledge and the Knowledge of Poetry
Avi Lifschitz; Chapter 2 Samuel Johnson and the 'Science' of Literary Criticism
Nicholas Hudson; Chapter 3 Prosody
Knowledge and Humanity in Enlightenment Language Science
Tom Jones; Chapter 4 Ferguson's School for Literature
Stefan H. Uhlig; Chapter 5 Introduction to Part II: Poetic Theories of the Social Self
Christopher J. Berry; Chapter 6 Hobbes and Davenant: Poetry as Civil Science
Philip Connell; Chapter 7 Facing the Misery of Others: Pity
Pleasure and Tragedy in Scottish Enlightenment Moral Philosophy
Christian Maurer; Chapter 8 Poetical Stoical Shaftesbury
Rowan Boyson; Chapter 9 Morality as a Discourse of the Imagination
Christopher Tilmouth; Chapter 10 Introduction to Part III: Enlightenment and Romantic Poetologies: Poetry and/or Enlightenment
Maureen N. McLane; Chapter 11 James Thomson's Seasons and the Transformative Potential of Poetry in the Early Scottish Enlightenment
Pierre Carboni; Chapter 12 'Furnishing Light': Wordsworth
Poetry and the Science of Man in Enlightenment Scotland
Catherine Packham; Chapter 13 Wordsworth
Kant
Fanaticism and Humanity
Simon Swift;