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

• Autore: Jones Tom
• Pubblicazione: London, : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment; Poetry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BoysonRowan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The poetic Enlightenment
• ISBN: 1-317-31965-6; 1-317-31966-4; 1-78144-036-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453090603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Enlightenment world.