The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820 (The Enlightenment World) - Hardcover

Boyson, Rowan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848934041 ISBN 13: 9781848934047

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.

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Review:

'The essays in this ambitious volume collectively argue that poetry and Enlightenment are entangled at every point in eighteenth-century British culture. A distinguished sequence of chapters mounts a convincing cumulative challenge to the idea that the Enlightenment was an age of prose. The Poetic Enlightenment promises to reorientate critical approaches to eighteenth-century thought and poetry in relation to the comprehensive aim to develop a 'Science' of human life in all its aspects.' Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh 'The Poetic Enlightenment gathers together essays from an outstanding group of scholars on the importance of poetry for Enlightenment thinkers. These essays brilliantly demonstrate in a variety of ways why we need to think much harder about the resources of poetry as a form of knowing, both in our own contemporaneity and historically with reference to the many discourses of knowledge that comprise Enlightenment. The collection as a whole will make a significant contribution to our re-enlightenment.' Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848934041
• ISBN 13: 9781848934047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224