Aaron R Hanlon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1031946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron R Hanlon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanlon |
| SIGNATURE | HANLON A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Abraham Cowley against Bacon's "Idols of the Mind
This essay examines the contributions of Abraham Cowley's poetry to the development of Royal Society scientific methods in the seventeenth century, particularly through Cowley's clarification of the forms of cognitive bias that Francis Bacon called "idols of the mind." We should understand many of Cowley's poetic choices and stylistic recommendations as part of an effort to illustrate and shape the cognitive habits necessary for experimental scie…
Daniel Defoe in Context
Defoe and Censorship
This chapter takes some of Defoe’s satirical poems and pamphlets, including The True-Born Englishman (1701), The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters (1702), and A Hymn to the Pillory (1703), as starting points for a brief study in how Defoe’s writing and experiences reflected disputes over what today we would call matters of censorship or suppression of thought. Included here is an examination of the slippery concept of ’seditious libel’ in the peri…
Mere Inventions of the Imagination
Two different accounts of Enlightenment systems can both be true: that the desire to systematize life and knowledge was a hallmark of the historical Enlightenment and that such efforts to systematize often failed. That the latter is the case—as Andrew Franta elegantly demonstrates in Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature—has important implications for how we understand the Enlightenment genre of system. Franta's study calls …
The Experimental Imagination
Book Review| July 01 2020 The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico Chico, Tita, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Aaron R. Hanlon Aaron R. Hanlon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2020) 53 (2): 183–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8562695 Cite Ic…
Quixotism as Global Heuristic
Quixotism as Global HeuristicAtlantic and Pacific Diasporas Aaron R. Hanlon (bio) The fact that quixotism behaves like a meme in eighteenth-century literatures in English has significant bearing on how we understand “global” or “world” literatures today. Each time a version of Don Quixote appears in a British or early American text, from Parson Adams in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742) to Dorcasina in Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotis…
Margaret Cavendish's Anthropocene Worlds
Critical responses to Cavendish tend to emphasize her “oppositional” and “unsystematic” approaches to natural philosophy. This article argues that Cavendish was not only more systematic than critics have suggested, but also that her approach to understanding the natural world anticipated some of the central questions of the anthropocene age. This article reads Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666) and Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (166…
Unworthy Global Citizens
This article considers the influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605–15), on Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), taking particular account of the role of the quixotic conversion scene in The Algerine Captive's contentious ending. Proceeding from a discussion of 'quixotic conversion' and of the ways in which Tyler's anti-hero remains quixotic throughout the novel, this article argues that, despite critical tendencies to read Tyle…
Quixotism as Global Heuristic
Quixotism as Global HeuristicAtlantic and Pacific Diasporas Aaron R. Hanlon (bio) The fact that quixotism behaves like a meme in eighteenth-century literatures in English has significant bearing on how we understand “global” or “world” literatures today. Each time a version of Don Quixote appears in a British or early American text, from Parson Adams in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742) to Dorcasina in Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotis…
Unworthy Global Citizens
This article considers the influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605–15), on Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), taking particular account of the role of the quixotic conversion scene in The Algerine Captive's contentious ending. Proceeding from a discussion of 'quixotic conversion' and of the ways in which Tyler's anti-hero remains quixotic throughout the novel, this article argues that, despite critical tendencies to read Tyle…
Margaret Cavendish's Anthropocene Worlds
Critical responses to Cavendish tend to emphasize her “oppositional” and “unsystematic” approaches to natural philosophy. This article argues that Cavendish was not only more systematic than critics have suggested, but also that her approach to understanding the natural world anticipated some of the central questions of the anthropocene age. This article reads Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666) and Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (166…
Quixotism as Global Heuristic
Quixotism as Global HeuristicAtlantic and Pacific Diasporas Aaron R. Hanlon (bio) The fact that quixotism behaves like a meme in eighteenth-century literatures in English has significant bearing on how we understand “global” or “world” literatures today. Each time a version of Don Quixote appears in a British or early American text, from Parson Adams in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742) to Dorcasina in Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotis…
The Experimental Imagination
Book Review| July 01 2020 The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico Chico, Tita, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Aaron R. Hanlon Aaron R. Hanlon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2020) 53 (2): 183–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8562695 Cite Ic…
Mere Inventions of the Imagination
Two different accounts of Enlightenment systems can both be true: that the desire to systematize life and knowledge was a hallmark of the historical Enlightenment and that such efforts to systematize often failed. That the latter is the case—as Andrew Franta elegantly demonstrates in Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature—has important implications for how we understand the Enlightenment genre of system. Franta's study calls …
Daniel Defoe in Context
Defoe and Censorship
This chapter takes some of Defoe’s satirical poems and pamphlets, including The True-Born Englishman (1701), The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters (1702), and A Hymn to the Pillory (1703), as starting points for a brief study in how Defoe’s writing and experiences reflected disputes over what today we would call matters of censorship or suppression of thought. Included here is an examination of the slippery concept of ’seditious libel’ in the peri…
"Abraham Cowley against Bacon's "Idols of the Mind
This essay examines the contributions of Abraham Cowley's poetry to the development of Royal Society scientific methods in the seventeenth century, particularly through Cowley's clarification of the forms of cognitive bias that Francis Bacon called "idols of the mind." We should understand many of Cowley's poetic choices and stylistic recommendations as part of an effort to illustrate and shape the cognitive habits necessary for experimental scie…
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