Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Kramnick |
Autore | Kramnick Jonathan Brody |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Act (Philosophy) in literature Philosophy of mind in literature Causation in literature Philosophy, English - 17th century Philosophy, English - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8047-7512-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Nothing from Nothing -- 1. Actions, Agents, Causes -- 2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke -- 3. Rochester’s Mind -- 4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others -- 5. Haywood and Consent -- 6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa -- Notes -- Index |
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Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Kramnick |
Autore | Kramnick Jonathan Brody |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Act (Philosophy) in literature Philosophy of mind in literature Causation in literature Philosophy, English - 17th century Philosophy, English - 18th century |
ISBN | 0-8047-7512-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Nothing from Nothing -- 1. Actions, Agents, Causes -- 2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke -- 3. Rochester’s Mind -- 4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others -- 5. Haywood and Consent -- 6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785470103321 |
Kramnick Jonathan Brody
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 | ||
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Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson / / Jonathan Kramnick |
Autore | Kramnick Jonathan Brody |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Act (Philosophy) in literature Philosophy of mind in literature Causation in literature Philosophy, English - 17th century Philosophy, English - 18th century |
ISBN | 0-8047-7512-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Nothing from Nothing -- 1. Actions, Agents, Causes -- 2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke -- 3. Rochester’s Mind -- 4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others -- 5. Haywood and Consent -- 6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809464403321 |
Kramnick Jonathan Brody
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 | ||
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The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456737403321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781210803321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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The burdens of perfection : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817860203321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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Oedipus against Freud : myth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature / / Bradley W. Buchanan |
Autore | Buchanan Bradley <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Humanism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4426-8715-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Citations -- Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine -- 1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence's Anti-Humanism -- 2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot -- 3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry -- 4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett -- 5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf -- Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458367103321 |
Buchanan Bradley <1970->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 | ||
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Oedipus against Freud : myth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature / / Bradley W. Buchanan |
Autore | Buchanan Bradley <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Humanism in literature |
ISBN | 1-4426-8715-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Oedipus against Freud: the origins of D.H. Lawrence's anti-humanism -- Anti-humanists at Colonus: the Oedipus myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot -- Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry -- Freudful mistakes in sphinxish pairc: Oedipal humanism and Irish nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett -- Oedipus que(e)ried: humanism, sexuality, and gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791667103321 |
Buchanan Bradley <1970->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Oedipus against Freud : myth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature / / Bradley W. Buchanan |
Autore | Buchanan Bradley <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Humanism in literature |
ISBN | 1-4426-8715-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Oedipus against Freud: the origins of D.H. Lawrence's anti-humanism -- Anti-humanists at Colonus: the Oedipus myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot -- Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry -- Freudful mistakes in sphinxish pairc: Oedipal humanism and Irish nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett -- Oedipus que(e)ried: humanism, sexuality, and gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813270103321 |
Buchanan Bradley <1970->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 | ||
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Poetics of character : transatlantic encounters, 1700-1900 / / Susan Manning [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Manning Susan <1953-2013, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in Romanticism |
Soggetto topico |
Romanticism
Character in literature English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Comparative literature - English and American Comparative literature - American and English |
ISBN |
1-107-70314-X
1-139-89355-6 1-107-49802-3 1-107-69288-1 1-107-32635-4 1-107-59865-6 1-107-70396-4 1-107-66974-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue -- Part I. Transatlantic Literary History and the Poetics of Character: 1. 'But is analogy argument?' -- Part II. Reading Character in Comparison -- 2. Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory -- 3. 'Choice flowers' and characterless women -- 4. Characters and representatives: 'floating fragments of a wrecked renown' -- 5. Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences -- 6. Subjects and objects: 'always joined, never settled' -- 7. Historical characters: virtue ethics and the limits of romantic biography -- 8. Poetics of character. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453257303321 |
Manning Susan <1953-2013, >
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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