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

McMurran, Mary Helen (EDT)/ Conway, Alison (EDT)

University of Toronto Press（2016/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442650114
• DDC分類 820.9005

Full 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.

Contents

Introduction
Mary Helen McMurran

Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience

1 Hogarth's Practical Aesthetics
Ruth Mack

2 Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England
Jonathan Kramnick

3 Reading Locke After Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance
David Alvarez

4 Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages
Mary Helen McMurran

Part Two: Materialisms

5 Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion
Sara Landreth

6 The Persistence of Clarissa
Sarah Ellenzweig

7 The Early-Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomology Imaginary
Kate E. Tunstall

8 Diderot's Brain
Joanna Stalnaker

Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
Vivasvan Soni