Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Christopher Fox

AMS Press, 1987 - Literary Criticism - 372 pages

Contents

• Towards a Profile of the Word Conscious: 23
• Psychology and Politics in William Godwins Caleb: 51
• Swift Locke and the Mad: 69
• The Alloy of Imagination in Otways Venice Preserved: 87
• Association Madness and the Measures of Prob ability in Locke and Hume: 103
• The Medical Context of The Rape of the Lock: 129
• Literary Theory and the Psychology of the Audience: 149
• The Clash of Prob: 167
• David Hartleys Great Apparatus: 199
• EighteenthCentury Spleen: 225
• Yorick and the Eternal Fountain of our Feelings: 259
• Psychology Semiotics: 277
• Selected Bibliography of Primary Materials: 303
• Index: 347

Bibliographic information

• Title: Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Issue 8 of AMS studies in the eighteenth century, ISSN 0196-6561; Ams Studies in the Middle Ages
• Editor: Christopher Fox
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: AMS Press, 1987
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jan 3, 2007
• ISBN: 0404614744, 9780404614744
• Length: 372 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General; Psychology / General