Mind, Body, Motion, Matter Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press
2016.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439760306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
