The poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650-1820 / / edited by Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson [[electronic resource]]
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| Titolo: |
The poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650-1820 / / edited by Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 809.1033 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| Poetry, Modern - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| Poetry - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Enlightenment - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century |
| Persona (resp. second.): | JonesTom <1975-> |
| BoysonRowan | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| 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: | 1-315-65463-6 |
| 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.: | 9910790680403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Enlightenment world ; ; no. 26.