Reason and Imagination

Studies in the History of Ideas 1600-1800

Joseph Anthony Mazzeo

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781032120959
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000470666
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

First published in 1962, Reason and Imagination presents collection of fourteen essays dedicated to Marjorie Hope Nicholson and is divided equally between works of her colleagues and of her former students. It contains themes like noble numbers and poetry of devotion, Cromwell as Davidic King, the isolation of the renaissances hero, Milton's dialogue on Astronomy, music, mirth and galenic traditions in England, the Augustan conception of history, Locke and Sterne, and literary criticism and artistic interpretation, to weave a narrative of the history of ideas in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of literary history, philosophy, comparative literature, and English literature in general.

Index

In view of the nature of this volume, some attempt has been made to provide topical headings for concepts and ideas; continued discussions of a subject have been indicated by bold type. Authors and titles mentioned in the text have for the most part been given independent entries but minor references to proper names have been excluded. Footnotes have been treated selectively, with attention to authorities cited more than once.

1. Abdiel, 156n
2. Academiarum Examen (Webster), 72n, 76n
3. Achilles, 58, 59, 64
4. Actes and Monuments (Foxe), 203, 204–205
5. Adam, 64, 65, 129–142 passim, 157–179 passim, 183–200 passim, 206, 208–209, 271
6. Addison, Joseph, 183n, 184n, 186, 279–280, 295
7. Advancement of Learning (Bacon), 98n
8. Aeneid (Virgil), 58, 64, 152–154, 201–202
9. Aeschylus, 68
10. Aikin, John, 281, 288, 297, 300
11. Albertus Magnus, 106
12. Alchemy, 95, 98, 102
13. Allan, David, 296, 297
14. Allegory: as used by Herrick, 7, 18; Biblical, 29–32, 48–50, 54–55; not used in Gulliver, 235, 237, 243; in illustrations of The Seasons, 289–299 passim, 3...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Noble Numbers and the Poetry of Devotion
• Cromwell as Davidic King
• The Isolation of the Renaissance Hero
• The Humanistic Defence of Learning in the Mid–Seventeenth Century
• Some Paradoxes in the Language of Things
• Milton’s Dialogue on Astronomy
• Music, Mirth, and Galenic Tradition in England
• Eve and Dalila: Renovation and the Hardening of the Heart
• The Bird, the Blind Bard, and the Fortunate Fall
• The Tragedy of God’S Englishman
• The Augustan Conception of History
• The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas
• Locke and Sterne
• Literary Criticism and Artistic Interpretation: Eighteenth–Century English Illustrations of ‘The Seasons’
• Bibliographical Afterword
• Index