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  title info:
    title: Mind, body, motion, matter
    sub title: eighteenth-century British and French literary perspectives
  name:
    name part: Conway, Alison
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McMurran, Mary Helen
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction / Mary Helen McMurran -- 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 aesthetics overcome instrumental reason? The need for judgement in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees / Vivasvan Soni.
  note: edited by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: French literature
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy in literature
  subject:
    topic: Materialism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Vitalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics in literature
  classification: PR448.P5 M56 2016
  classification: 820.9/384
  identifier: 9781442650114
  identifier: 1442650117
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 151211
    record change date: 20200104063132.0
    record identifier: in00003778963
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng