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Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Kramnick
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910459649803321
Kramnick Jonathan Brody  
Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
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Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Kramnick
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  
Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
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Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson / / Jonathan Kramnick
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  
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
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->  
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
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->  
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
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->  
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
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->  
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
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->  
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
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->  
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]]
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, >  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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