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oapen-20.500.12657-374982023-06-05T13:07:44Z Mind, Body, Motion, Matter McMurran Helen, Mary Conway, Alison Literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2016-03-11 23:55 2019-12-10 14:15:41 2020-04-01T14:19:21Z 2020-04-01T14:19:21Z 2016 book 604622 650010 9781442650114 9781487511418 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37498 eng application/pdf n/a 604622.pdf http://www.utppublishing.com/Mind-Body-Motion-Matter-Eighteenth-Century-British-and-French-Literary-Perspectives.html University of Toronto Press 10.26530/OAPEN_604622 103460 10.26530/OAPEN_604622 4af200cf-cd4b-42da-b77f-53784aeda421 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781442650114 9781487511418 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 288 103460 KU Round 2 650010 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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