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Making mind : moral sense and consciousness in philosophy, science, and literature

Tague, Gregory

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In this illuminating and wide-ranging study, Gregory F. Tague returns to a familiar chapter of English literary history in order to give it an evolutionary twist. His erudite account of morality in science, philosophy and the eighteenth-century novel hinges on the proposition that human beings are equipped with an inborn but culturally coded moral sense whose real-life manifestations have also had a bearing on the stories told by people since time immemorial. Typically providing a narrative of self in relation to others, the early English novel is a strikingly prescient medium for the imaginative reflection of how the social nature of Homo sapiens gives form to moral sentiments; prescient because it seems to anticipate what science has taught us about human nature in recent years. Tague argues this point persuasively by enriching his astute analysis of literature, especially Richardson's Clarissa, with an impressive array of extradisciplinary research. 'Making mind' is a significant addition to the growing field of evolutionary literary criticism, illustrating not only the by now remarkable scope of this line of inquiry but also the fundamental applicability of evolutionary psychology to the study of literature.

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Subject: Literature and morals History and criticism. / Consciousness in literature History and criticism. / Literature History and criticism. / English fiction History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9789042038950, 9042038950

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PN49.T34 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE