1st Edition
Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century
This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.
Volume 2: The Mid-Nineteenth Century
Edited by Peter Garratt and Giles Whiteley
General Introduction: "No longer such an Ancient Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture", Giles Whiteley
Volume II Introduction – Peter Garratt and Giles Whiteley
Part 1. Self
Part 1. Introduction
1. James Ferrier, ‘On the Plagiarisms of Coleridge’
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
3. G. H. Lewes, Feeling and Thinking
4. Frances Power Cobbe, Dreams as Illustrations of Unconscious Cerebration
5. Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices
6. Alexander Bain, Law of Contiguity
7. Henry Maudsley, Hamlet
8. Charles Darwin, General Principles of Expression
9. J. S. Mill, A Crisis in My Mental History
Part 2. Knowledge/Belief
Part 2. Introduction
10. William Hamilton, Philosophy of the Unconditioned
11. John Ruskin, German Philosophy
12. Ludwig Feuerbach, extract from The Essence of Christianity
13. Herbert Spencer, The Unknowable
14. Harriet Martineau, ‘Preface’ of The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
15. J. S. Mill, The Relativity of Human Knowledge
16. Benjamin Jowett, On the Interpretation of Scripture
17. Matthew Arnold, The Bishop and the Philosopher
18. Alfred Tennyson, Lucretius
Part 3. Aesthetics, Art and Literature
Part 3. Introduction
19. John Keble, extract from Lectures on Poetry
20. John Ruskin, Of the Three Forms of Imagination
21. John Orchard, A Dialogue on Art
22. Robert Browning, ‘“Transcendentalism”: A Poem in Twelve Books’
23. David Masson, ‘Theories of Poetry’
24. Alexander Bain, From The Emotions and the Will
25. E. S. Dallas, ‘The Hidden Soul’
26. George Eliot, ‘O May I Join the Choir Invisible’
27. Hippolyte Taine, extract from History of English Literature
Index
Biography
Peter Garratt, Durham University, has worked extensively on mid-Victorian philosophy and literature at the intersection of the cognitive and empirical sciences. His book on Victorian Empiricism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010) showed the ways in which realist authors such as George Eliot worked in a climate informed by contemporary scientific philosophy. He has also published extensively on other Victorian authors and empirical philosophy, including Ruskin, Dickens, Gaskell and Vernon Lee.
