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Eighteenth-century Stoic poetics : Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination
- Title
- Eighteenth-century Stoic poetics : Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination / by Alexandra Bacalu.
- Author
- Bacalu, Alexandra
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
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- Description
- viii, 211 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 342
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 342.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Stoic imagination -- The poetic imagination -- Shaftesbury and the discipline of the fancies -- Akenside and the conduct of the powers of imagination.
- ISBN
- 9789004202832
- 9004202838
- 9789004517301 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022052339
- OCLC
- on1350763174
- 1350763174
- SCSB-14687890
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries