Mind, Body, Motion, Matter :
Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives /
Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway.

Description

Main Author

McMurran, Mary Helen

Related Names

Conway, Alison, author.

Language(s)

English

Published

©2016.
London : Knowledge Unlatched, c2016.
Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, c2016.

Subjects

History.
Literature.

Summary

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world - mechanistic materialism and vitalism - in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Note

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Physical Description

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.

ISBN

9781487511418 (e-ISBN)
9781442650114 (print-ISBN)

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