The Languages of Psyche

The Languages of Psyche

Author: G. S. Rousseau

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0520910435

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The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in


Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing

Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing

Author: A. Ingram

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230510892

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Cultural Constructions of Madness in the Eighteenth Century deals with the (mis)representation of insanity through a substantial range of literary forms and figures from across the eighteenth century and beyond. Chapters cover the representation, distortion, sentimentalization and elevation of insanity, and such associated issues as gender, personal identity, and performance, in some of the best, as well as some of the least, known writers of the period. A selection of visual material, including works by Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray, is also discussed. While primarily adopting a literary focus, the work is informed throughout by an alertness to significant issues of medical and psychiatric history.


Literary Memory

Literary Memory

Author: Catherine Jones

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780838755396

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"Theoretically and historically grounded, Literary Memory will appeal to all those interested in the writings of Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, Romantic cultural history, the history of the novel, narrative theory, and literature in relation to psychology and psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.


Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century

Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century

Author: Marie Mulvey Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032350417

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Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life.


The Party of Humanity

The Party of Humanity

Author: Blakey Vermeule

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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"The Party of Humanity frames its discussion about emotions, social conflict, and aesthetics within two broad theories: the emerging field of evolutionary psychology and Kantian moral philosophy. By studying how eighteenth-century Britons experienced the demands of their social identities, Vermeule argues, we can better understand the most salient problems facing moral philosophy today - the issue of self-interest and the question of how moral norms are shaped by social agendas."--BOOK JACKET


English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century

English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9004349367

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This volume highlights the connections that link both literary discourse and the discourse about literature to the conceptual or representational frameworks, practices, and cognitive results (the ‘truths’) of disciplines such as psychology, medicine, epistemology, anthropology, cartography, chemistry, and rhetoric. Literature and the sciences, embedded as they are in specific historical circumstances, thus emerge as fields of inquiry and representation which share a number of assumptions and are determined or constructed by several modes of cross-fertilization. The range of authors examined includes Richard Brome, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Shaftesbury, Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Smollett, while emphasis is placed on how authors of literature regard the practices, practitioners and findings of science, as well as on how ‘mimesis’ intersects with scientific discourse. Contributors are Bernhard Klein, Daniel Essig García, George Rousseau, Jorge Bastos da Silva, Kate De Rycker, Maria Avxentevskaya, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, Mihaela Irimia, Richard Nate, and Wojciech Nowicki.