CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xii

General Introduction

pp 1-10

I - Poetic Knowledge and the Knowledge of Poetry

1 - Introduction

pp 11-14

2 - Samuel Johnson and the Science of Literary Criticism

pp 15-28

3 - Prosody, Knowledge and Humanity in Enlightenment Language Science

pp 29-42

4 - Ferguson's School for Literature

pp 43-58

II - Poetic Theories of the Social Self

5 - Introduction

pp 59-62

6 - Hobbes and Davenant: Poetry as Civil Science

pp 63-74

7 - Facing the Misery of Others: Pity, Pleasure and Tragedy in Scottish Enlightenment Moral Philosophy

pp 75-88

8 - Poetical Stoical Shaftesbury

pp 89-104

9 - Morality as a Discourse of the Imagination

pp 105-120

III - Enlightenment and Romantic Poetologies

10 - Introduction: Poetry and/or Enlightenment

pp 121-126

11 - James Thomson's The Seasons and the Transformative Potential of Poetry in the Early Scottish Enlightenment

pp 127-138

12 - ‘Furnishing Light’: Wordsworth, Poetry and the Science of Man in Enlightenment Scotland

pp 139-152

13 - Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism and Humanity

pp 153-168

Notes

pp 169-200

Index

pp 201-206