Cover illustration: Illustration of the Shaftesburian discipline of fancies included in the second edition of Characteristics, by Simon Gribelin (1661–1733). Courtesy Online Library of Liberty.
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Names: Bacalu, Alexandra, author.
Title: Eighteenth-century Stoic poetics : Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination / by Alexandra Bacalu.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 342 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | 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”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022052339 (print) | LCCN 2022052340 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004202832 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004517301 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Stoics. | Imagination. | Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713. | Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770—Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC B528 .B233 2023 (print) | LCC B528 (ebook) | DDC 188—dc23/eng/20230110
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022052339
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022052340
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ISSN 0920-8607
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