Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway, Mary Helen Mcmurran

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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 third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-03-14
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442650114

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IntroductionMary Helen McMurranPart One: Pre-Reflective Experience1 Hogarth’s Practical AestheticsRuth Mack2 Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century EnglandJonathan Kramnick3 Reading Locke After Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious ToleranceDavid Alvarez4 Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvagesMary Helen McMurranPart Two: Materialisms5 Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in MotionSara Landreth6 The Persistence of ClarissaSarah Ellenzweig7 The Early-Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomology ImaginaryKate E. Tunstall8 Diderot’s BrainJoanna StalnakerConclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the BeesVivasvan Soni

‘This commendable volume will be of interest to scholars active in eighteenth-century studies as well as those whose work borders on this field.’- Matthew Rowney (Eighteenth Century Fiction) ‘Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway have edited a great collection of essays on the topic of eighteenth-century science. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter offers an amazing range of topics and concerns.’- George E. Haggerty (Studies in English Literature) "The stimulating articles in this volume present new approaches to some complicated concepts concerning materialism in the eighteenth century, concepts that have been considered and debated before, but not in this impressive, challenging, and, at times, provocative manner…The articles, which are of a uniformly high quality, will appeal to a broad spectrum of interests, aesthetic, literary, philosophical, French, and English."- Hugh Reid, Carleton University (University of Toronto Quarterly)