Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
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Contributors
Alvarez, David, Contributor
Conway, Alison, Editor
Ellenzweig, Sarah, Contributor
Kramnick, Jonathan, Contributor
Landreth, Sara, Contributor
Conway, Alison, Editor
Ellenzweig, Sarah, Contributor
Kramnick, Jonathan, Contributor
Landreth, Sara, Contributor
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press,, [2016].
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eBook
ISBN
9781487511418
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English
UPC
10.3138/9781487511418
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Description
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.
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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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In English.