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The poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650-1820 / Tom Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Tom, 1975-
- Series:
- Enlightenment world.
- The Enlightenment World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2013.
- Summary:
- The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - anthropology, linguistics, psychology - the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; General Introduction; 1. Introduction to Part I; 2. Samuel Johnson and the 'Science' of Literary Criticism; 3. Prosody, Knowledge and Humanity in Enlightenment Language Science; 4. Ferguson's School for Literature; 5. Introduction to Part II; 6. Hobbes and Davenant: Poetry as Civil Science; 7. Facing the Misery of Others; 8. Poetical Stoical Shaftesbury; 9. Morality as a Discourse of the Imagination; 10. Introduction to Part III; 11. James Thomson's Seasons and the Transformative Potential of Poetry; 12. 'Furnishing Light': Wordsworth, Poetry and the Science of Manin Enlightenment Scotland; 13. Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism and Humanity; Notes; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781315654638
- 1315654636
- 9781317319658
- 1317319656
- 9781317319665
- 1317319664
- 9781781440360
- 1781440360
- OCLC:
- 831121087
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