Eighteenth-century Stoic poetics : Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination / by Alexandra Bacalu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacalu, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 0920-8607 v. 342.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 342

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stoics.

Imagination.

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper.

Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770--Criticism and interpretation.

Akenside, Mark.

Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors' debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern conceptions of the care of the self, which informs their view of the poetic imagination as a bundle of techniques designed to manage impressions, cultivate right images in the mind and rectify judgement. Alexandra Bacalu traces the roots of this articulation in early modern writings on the imagination, as well as in Restoration and Augustan debates on wit, exploring the fruitful tension between ideas of imaginative enthusiasm and imaginative regulation that it provokes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Stoic imagination

The poetic imagination

Shaftesbury and the discipline of the fancies

Akenside and the conduct of the powers of imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bacalu, Alexandra. Eighteenth-century stoic poetics

ISBN:

9789004202832

9004202838

OCLC:

1350763174