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 t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2016.
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| Series: | ACUP E-Book.
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Books at JSTOR Open Access KU Open Research Library KU 2015-16 Round 2 Collection EBSCO eBook Open Access (OA) Collection OAPEN Library |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442622241 1442622245 9781487511418 1487511418 9781442622258 1442622253 |
