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. Ed(S): McMurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison - Mind, Body, Motion, Matter - 9781442650114 - V9781442650114
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

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Description for Mind, Body, Motion, Matter 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. Editor(s): McMurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650114
SKU
V9781442650114
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): McMurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison
Mary Helen McMurran is an associate professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Alison Conway is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and of Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Reviews for Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
‘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
‘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 ... Read more

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