Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture

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.

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