Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives

Open Access Published by University of Toronto Press 2016

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives

Edited by: Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487511418

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About this book

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world 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.

Author / Editor information

McMurran Mary Helen :

Mary Helen McMurran is an associate professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Conway Alison :

Alison Conway is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and of Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Reviews

Neil Saccamano, Department of English, Cornell University:

"Each of the essays in this collection helps reshape the way we think about British and French eighteenth-century literary culture. Those who are engaged with eighteenth-century philosophy and science will be especially interested in the range of topics addressed in Mind, Body, Motion, Matter."

George E. Haggerty:

‘Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway have edited a great collection of essays on the topic of eighteenth-century science. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter offers an amazing range of topics and concerns.’

Natania Meeker, Departments of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California:

"Mind, Body, Motion, Matter, with its thoughtful articulation of contemporary theoretical concerns with eighteenth-century literature, art, aesthetics, and philosophy, represents the leading edge of eighteenth-century studies. A collection of provocative, substantial, and well-argued essays, the volume not only reflects on what is past but also opens onto the future."

Hugh Reid, Carleton University:

"The stimulating articles in this volume present new approaches to some complicated concepts concerning materialism in the eighteenth century, concepts that have been considered and debated before, but not in this impressive, challenging, and, at times, provocative manner…The articles, which are of a uniformly high quality, will appeal to a broad spectrum of interests, aesthetic, literary, philosophical, French, and English."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Mary Helen McMurran Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
1. Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics Ruth Mack Open Access Download PDF	21
2. Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England Jonathan Kramnick Open Access Download PDF	47
3. Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance David Alvarez Open Access Download PDF	72
4. Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvages Mary Helen McMurran Open Access Download PDF	110
Part Two: Materialisms
5. Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion Sara Landreth Open Access Download PDF	139
6. The Persistence of Clarissa Sarah Ellenzweig Open Access Download PDF	170
7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary Kate E. Tunstall Open Access Download PDF	202
8. Diderot’s Brain Joanna Stalnaker Open Access Download PDF	230
Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees Vivasvan Soni Open Access Download PDF	254
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	279
Index Open Access Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Other: 6 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: April 8, 2016
ISBN: 9781487511418