Mind, body, motion, matter : : eighteenth-century British and French literary perspectives / / edited by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway.
"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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto ;, Buffalo ; : University of Toronto Press., 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Mary Helen Mcmurran
- Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
- Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics / Ruth Mack
- Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England / Jonathan Kramnick
- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Post secular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance / David Alvarez
- Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen Mcmurran
- Part Two: Materialisms
- Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion / Sara Landreth
- The Persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig
- The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary / Kate E. Tunstall
- Diderot’s Brain / Joanna Stalnaker
- Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees / Vivasvan Soni
- List of Contributors
- Index.