Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives /

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / / Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway.

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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...

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HerausgeberIn:
Conway, Alison,
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McMurran, Mary Helen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2016
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 293 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • MIND, BODY, MOTION, MATTER
  • Introduction / McMurran, Mary Helen
  • Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
  • 1. Hogarth's Practical Aesthetics / Mack, Ruth
  • 2. Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England / Kramnick, Jonathan
  • 3. Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance / Alvarez, David
  • 4. Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / McMurran, Mary Helen
  • Part Two: Materialisms
  • 5. Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion / Landreth, Sara
  • 6. The Persistence of Clarissa / Ellenzweig, Sarah
  • 7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary / Tunstall, Kate E.
  • 8. Diderot's Brain / Stalnaker, Joanna
  • Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees / Soni, Vivasvan
  • Contributors
  • Index

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