The poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650-1820

✍ Scribed by Jones, Tom; Boyson, Rowan

• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Enlightenment world
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 and innate art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of communicating this philosophy of human science.

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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. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

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. Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. Enlightenment. Poetry. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.