Life and Collected Works of Thomas Brown: Account of the life and writings of Thomas Brown
Author: Thomas M. Dixon
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 586
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Thomas Brown
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1845404343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Brown (1778–1820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense' and the later positivism of John Stuart Mill and others. The selections in this volume illustrate Brown's original ideas about mental science, cause and effect, emotions and ethics. They are preceded by an introduction situating Brown's career and writings in their intellectual and historical context.
Life and Collected Works of Thomas Brown: Responses to Thomas Brown
Author: Thomas M. Dixon
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarlyle and Scottish Thought
Author: R. Jessop
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0230371477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book initiates a new interdisciplinary approach in the literary and philosophical treatment of Carlyle, challenging the long-held notion that his work was solely influenced by German idealism. Tracing Carlyle's intellectual inheritance through Hume, Reid, and Hamilton, Jessop argues that Carlyle was crucially influenced by Scottish philosophy and that this philosophical discourse can in turn be used to inform critical readings of his texts. The book will be of interest to readers of Carlyle, philosophers, and specialists in the literature and intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University Library
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 1404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gothic Other
Author: Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-09-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0786427108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.
Charlotte M. Yonge
Author: Gavin Budge
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783039113392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharlotte M Yonge was one of the bestselling novelists of the Victorian period; she published prolifically during a lengthy writing career that lasted from the early 1850s to the 1890s, was highly regarded by contemporaries such as Tennyson and Kingsley, and continued to be widely read up till the 1940s even by unlikely figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Her work, on which Jane Austen exerted a significant influence, is central to an understanding of the development of the domestic novel, yet remains significantly less well known than that of other Victorian women writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Ellen Wood and M E Braddon. This book is the first full-length critical study of Yonge's writings, and presents an argument for the artistic coherence of her work as a novelist, as well as examining the reasons for its current non-canonical status. Reflecting Yonge's lifelong involvement in the Oxford Movement, and personal closeness to John Keble, the book situates her novels in the context of Tractarian aesthetics.
Romantic Empiricism
Author: Gavin Budge
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780838757123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Romantic Empiricism is a collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, which represents a paradigm shift for the study of British Romanticism. The volume challenges the received view that German Idealist philosophy constitutes the main intellectual reference point for British Romantic writers, arguing instead that the tradition of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, largely overlooked by literary scholars, is a significant influence on Romantic thought. The essays in the collection examine a variety of canonical and non-canonical Romantic authors in the light of this fresh interpretative context, ranging from Charlotte Smith and Elizabeth Hamilton to Robert Burns and S. T. Coleridge. The volume is prefaced by a substantial theoretical introduction, which sets out the historical and interpretative case for the relevance of Common Sense philosophy for the study of British Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Author: Gavin Budge
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-10-17
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1137284315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
