Title Mind, body, motion, matter : eighteenth-century British and French literary perspectives / edited by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) Series ACUP E-Book Contents 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 postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- 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 aesthestics overcome instrumental reason? The need for judgement in Mandeville's Fable of the bees / Vivasvan Soni Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Philosophy in literature. Materialism in literature. Vitalism in literature. Aesthetics in literature. History. history (discipline) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Aesthetics in literature English literature French literature Materialism in literature Philosophy in literature Vitalism in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Conway, Alison, editor McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962- author, editor. ISBN 9781442622241 1442622245 9781487511418 1487511418 9781442622258 1442622253

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