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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453090603321

Autore

Jones Tom

Titolo

The poetic Enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and human science, 1650-1820 / / Tom Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2013

ISBN

1-317-31965-6

1-317-31966-4

1-78144-036-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

The Enlightenment World

Altri autori (Persone)

BoysonRowan

Disciplina

820.9

Soggetti

Enlightenment

Poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Scotland13. Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism and Humanity; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.