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

by Mary Helen McMurran

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442650117
• ISBN13: 9781442650114
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"