Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

Mary Helen McMurran is an associate professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Alison Conway is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and of Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

‘This commendable volume will be of interest to scholars active in eighteenth-century studies as well as those whose work borders on this field.’- Matthew Rowney (Eighteenth Century Fiction) ‘Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway have edited a great collection of essays on the topic of eighteenth-century science. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter offers an amazing range of topics and concerns.’- George E. Haggerty (Studies in English Literature) "The stimulating articles in this volume present new approaches to some complicated concepts concerning materialism in the eighteenth century, concepts that have been considered and debated before, but not in this impressive, challenging, and, at times, provocative manner…The articles, which are of a uniformly high quality, will appeal to a broad spectrum of interests, aesthetic, literary, philosophical, French, and English."- Hugh Reid, Carleton University (University of Toronto Quarterly)

• IntroductionMary Helen McMurranPart One: Pre-Reflective Experience1 Hogarth’s Practical AestheticsRuth Mack2 Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century EnglandJonathan Kramnick3 Reading Locke After Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious ToleranceDavid Alvarez4 Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvagesMary Helen McMurranPart Two: Materialisms5 Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in MotionSara Landreth6 The Persistence of ClarissaSarah Ellenzweig7 The Early-Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomology ImaginaryKate E. Tunstall8 Diderot’s BrainJoanna StalnakerConclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the BeesVivasvan Soni