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Ellenzweig, Sarah. “The Persistence of Clarissa,” in Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives, Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), 170-201. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors.

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