Literature and philosophy in Nineteenth Century British culture. Volume I, Literature and philosophy of the Romantic Period / edited by Monika Class and Cian Duffy. - [Abingdon] : Routledge, 2024. - 1 online resource (533 pages)

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British CultureVolumeOne: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic PeriodEdited by Monika Class and Cian Duffy Table of contentsGeneral Introduction: "No longer such an Ancient Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture", Giles WhiteleyVolume 1. Introduction: "Romantic-era Literature and Philosophy: From Ancient Rivalry to Reciprocity" ⁰́₄ Monika Class Part 1. Knowledge and BeliefPart 1. Introduction: "God, Nature, and the Secularisation of Morality and Knowledge" ⁰́₄ Monika Class1. William Paley, ⁰́₈The Unity of the Deity⁰́₉, of Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (London: Faulder, 1802), pp. 482⁰́₃87.2. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (n©♭e Aikin), ⁰́₈An Address to the Deity⁰́₉ of Poems (London: Joseph Johnson, 1773), pp. 125⁰́₃30.3. Catharine Macaulay, Part III, Letter XIII, ⁰́₈The Question of Free Will and Necessity⁰́₉, of Letters on Education: With Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (Dublin: Chamberlain and Rice, 1790), pp. 282⁰́₃86.4. Friedrich August Nitsch, A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant Concerning Man, the World and the Deity (London: J. Downes, 1796), pp. 219⁰́₃21.5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ⁰́₈Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion: Aphorism VIII⁰́₉, of Aids to Reflection: In the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds Prudence, Morality, and Religion; illustrated by select passages from elder divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton (Burlington: Goodrich, 1829), pp. 135⁰́₃43.6. Henry Crabb Robinson, ⁰́₈Letter from an under-Graduate, at the University of Jena, on the Philosophy of Kant⁰́₉, The Monthly Register and Encyclopedian Magazine 2, 7 (1802), pp. 6⁰́₃12.7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ⁰́₈Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation⁰́₉, of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (ed.), Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824), pp. 3⁰́₃12.8. Francis Jeffrey, ⁰́₈Stewart⁰́₉s Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Thomas Reid, F. R. S. Edin⁰́₉, The Edinburgh Review 3, 6 (1804), pp. 269⁰́₃87. 272⁰́₃77.Part 2. SelfPart 2. Introduction: "The Reciprocity of Literature and Philosophy at the Intersection of Self and Other" ⁰́₄ Monika Class9. Thomas Beddoes, ⁰́₈Of the Brunonian Doctrine⁰́₉, of The Elements of Medicine of John Brown, M. D. Translated from the Latin Comments and Illustrations [⁰́Œ] with a Biographical Preface by Thomas Beddoes (London: J. Johnson, 1795), pp. cxxvi⁰́₃cxxxv.10. Elizabeth Hamilton, Excerpts from Ch. VII ⁰́₈Operation of the Selfish Principle in the Spirit of Party⁰́₉, of A Series of Popular Essays, Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart 2nd ed. vol. 2. 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Manners and Miller, 1813), pp. 38-42, 79-82.11. Charlotte Smith (ne©♭ Turner), ⁰́₈Sonnet XXXII: To Melancholy⁰́₉, of Elegiac Sonnets. 5th edition (London: T. Cadell, 1789), p. 32.12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, excerpt from Chapter XIII of Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions vol. 1. 2 vols. (London: William Fenner, 1817), pp. 290⁰́₃96.13. William Wordsworth, excerpt from Book II ⁰́₈School-time Continued⁰́₉, of The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet⁰́₉s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem (London: Edward Moxon, 1850), pp. 41⁰́₃52.14. John Keats, excerpt from ⁰́₈Letter to Bailey, 22 November 1817; Letter to Brothers, 22 December 1817⁰́₉, of Lord Houghton (ed.), The Life and Letters of John Keats (London: Edward Moxon, 1867), pp. 51⁰́₃5, 74⁰́₃6.15. William Hazlitt. An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind (London: J. Johnson, 1805), pp. 1⁰́₃8, 17-20.16. Thomas Carlyle, excerpt from Book II, ⁰́₈The Everlasting Yea⁰́₉, of Sartor Resartus, 2nd edition (Boston: J. Monroe and Company, 1837), pp. 189⁰́₃203. Part 3. Art and CriticismPart 3. Introduction: "Philosophical Aesthetics and Beyond" ⁰́₄ Cian Duffy17. Archibald Alison, ⁰́₈Of the Effect Produced upon the Imagination by Objects of Beauty and Sublimity⁰́₉, of Essays on the Nature and Principles of Tast, 4th edition (Edinburgh: George Ramsay, [1790] 1815), pp. 3⁰́₃22.18. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (n©♭e Aikin), ⁰́₈On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror⁰́₉, of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (London: J. Johnson, 1773), pp. 119⁰́₃37.19. Ann Radcliffe, ⁰́₈On the Supernatural in Poetry⁰́₉, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 16, 61 (1826), pp. 145⁰́₃52. 20. Richard Payne Knight, Book I of The Landscape, a Didactic Poem (London: W. Bulmer, 1794), lines 97⁰́₃272, pp. 7-16.21. Joanna Baillie, ⁰́₈Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions⁰́₉, of A Series of Plays Vol. 1 (London: Longman, 1798), pp. 17⁰́₃25.22. Isaac D⁰́₉Israeli, ⁰́₈On some Characteristics of a Youth of Genius⁰́₉, of An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character (London: T. Cadell, 1795), pp. 43⁰́₃51.23. Charles Lamb, excerpt ⁰́₈On the Genius and Character of Hogarth; with some Remarks⁰́₉, The Reflector 2 (1811), pp. 61⁰́₃77. 63⁰́₃68.24. Baroness Holstein Sta©±l, excerpt from Ch. IX "Influence of the New German Philosophy on Literature and the Arts⁰́₉, of Germany; Translated from the French Vol. 3. 3 vols. (London: John Murray, 1813), pp. 135⁰́₃145.25. Thomas de Quincey, excerpt from ⁰́₈Lessing: Gallery of the German Prose Classics. By the English Opium Eater. Part II⁰́₉, Blackwood⁰́₉s Edinburg Magazine 21, 121 (Jan 1827), pp. 2⁰́₃24. 11⁰́₃18.26. Percy Bysshe Shelley, excerpt from ⁰́₈A Defence of Poetry⁰́₉ [composed 1821] of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (ed.), Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments Vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), pp. 25⁰́₃62. 53⁰́₃60. Part 4. SocietyPart 4. Introduction: "Literature, Philosophy, and Revolution" ⁰́₄ Cian Duffy27. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris, 5th edition (London: J. Dodsley, 1790), pp. 47⁰́₃54.28. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke⁰́₉s Attack on the French Revolution (London: J. S. Jordon, 1791), pp. 5⁰́₃14.29. Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from Ch. XIII ⁰́₈Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates⁰́₉, of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (London: J. Johnson, 1792), pp. 248⁰́₃56.30. Hannah More, excerpt from Ch. II ⁰́₈On the Education of Women⁰́₉, of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education Vol. 1. 2 vols. (London: T. Cadell, 1799), pp. 70⁰́₃9.31. Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, excerpt from ⁰́₈Tasks⁰́₉, of Essays on Practical Education, 3rd ed., Vol. 1. 2 vols. (London: J. Johnson, [1798] 1811), pp. 74⁰́₃83.32. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Printed in the Year 1780, and Now First Published (London: T. Payne, 1789), pp. i⁰́₃vi.33. William Godwin, ⁰́₈Objection to the System from the Principle of Population⁰́₉ of Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness 2nd ed. vol. 2. 2 vols. (London: G.G. and J. Robinson, [1793] 1796), pp. 509⁰́₃22.34. Thomas R. Malthus, ⁰́₈Error of Mr. Godwin⁰́₉, of An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness (London: J. Johnson, 1798), pp. 250⁰́₃63.35. James Stephen, The Opportunity; or, Reasons for an Immediate Alliance with St. Domingo (London: J. Hatchard, 1804), pp. 139⁰́₃48.36. Thomas Carlyle, excerpt from ⁰́₈Art Vii Review of Anticipation; or, a Hundred Years Hence [on the Signs of the Times]⁰́₉, Edinburgh Review 98, 48 (1829), pp. 439-59. 442⁰́₃47.Index

This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.

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