The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetics and deism -- Shaftesburian disinterestedness -- Addison's aesthetics of the novel -- The conversation piece : politeness and subversion -- The "Great Creation" : Fielding -- Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne -- The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children -- From novel to strange to "sublime" -- From novel to picturesque -- The novelizing of Hogarth.…”
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The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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