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Book SynopsisMind, 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.
Trade Review'This commendable volume will be of interest to scholars active in eighteenth-century studies as well as those whose work borders on this field.' -- Matthew Rowney Eighteenth Century Fiction vol 29:03:2017
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
