Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives by Mary Helen McMurran
English | Mar. 14, 2016 | ISBN: 1442650117 | 304 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
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.