Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture

Peter Garratt, Durham University, has worked extensively on mid-Victorian philosophy and literature at the intersection of the cognitive and empirical sciences. His book on Victorian Empiricism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010) showed the ways in which realist authors such as George Eliot worked in a climate informed by contemporary scientific philosophy. He has also published extensively on other Victorian authors and empirical philosophy, including Ruskin, Dickens, Gaskell and Vernon Lee.

• Volume 2: The Mid-Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Peter Garratt and Giles WhiteleyGeneral Introduction: "No longer such an Ancient Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture", Giles WhiteleyVolume II Introduction – Peter Garratt and Giles WhiteleyPart 1. SelfPart 1. Introduction1. James Ferrier, ‘On the Plagiarisms of Coleridge’2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh3. G. H. Lewes, Feeling and Thinking4. Frances Power Cobbe, Dreams as Illustrations of Unconscious Cerebration5. Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices6. Alexander Bain, Law of Contiguity7. Henry Maudsley, Hamlet8. Charles Darwin, General Principles of Expression 9. J. S. Mill, A Crisis in My Mental HistoryPart 2. Knowledge/BeliefPart 2. Introduction10. William Hamilton, Philosophy of the Unconditioned11. John Ruskin, German Philosophy12. Ludwig Feuerbach, extract from The Essence of Christianity13. Herbert Spencer, The Unknowable14. Harriet Martineau, ‘Preface’ of The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte 15. J. S. Mill, The Relativity of Human Knowledge16. Benjamin Jowett, On the Interpretation of Scripture17. Matthew Arnold, The Bishop and the Philosopher18. Alfred Tennyson, LucretiusPart 3. Aesthetics, Art and LiteraturePart 3. Introduction19. John Keble, extract from Lectures on Poetry20. John Ruskin, Of the Three Forms of Imagination21. John Orchard, A Dialogue on Art22. Robert Browning, ‘“Transcendentalism”: A Poem in Twelve Books’23. David Masson, ‘Theories of Poetry’24. Alexander Bain, From The Emotions and the Will 25. E. S. Dallas, ‘The Hidden Soul’26. George Eliot, ‘O May I Join the Choir Invisible’ 27. Hippolyte Taine, extract from History of English LiteratureIndex