Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics

Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-20283-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 342, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors’ debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern conceptions of the care of the self, which informs their view of the poetic imagination as a bundle of techniques designed to manage impressions, cultivate right images in the mind and rectify judgement. Alexandra Bacalu traces the roots of this articulation in early modern writings on the imagination, as well as in Restoration and Augustan debates on wit, exploring the fruitful tension between ideas of imaginative enthusiasm and imaginative regulation that it provokes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacalu, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Stoic Imagination

1 Sources and Genres

2 Imagination and Opinion

3 Early Modern Exercises for the Imagination

2 The Poetic Imagination

1 Sources and Genres

2 Dynamics of Wit and Judgement

3 Wit and Poetic Enthusiasm

3 Shaftesbury and the Discipline of the Fancies

1 True Judgment and Ingenuity

2 Judgement and Stoic Exercises

3 Soliloquy and Imagination

4 Stoic Discipline and Reasonable Enthusiasm

4 Akenside and the Conduct of the Powers of Imagination

1 Stoic Ethics in The Pleasures of Imagination

2 Invention and Stoic Exercises

3 Pleasure and Enthusiasm

4 Familiarity, Habit, and Association

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Bacalu, Ph.D (2020) is Assistant Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature and the history of the care of the self.