You're near my home [Virginia] on this, Max.
Krieger writes of Brad Pasanek's [assistant prof of English at U of
Virginia] collection of mostly British 18th c literature metaphors of the
mind. He says that he collected them from works by novelists, poets,
dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and
pamphleteers. More than 5,980 of the metaphors were found keyword searching
Chadwyck-Healey through Stanford's HDIS interface, others from ECCO, OLL,
Past Masters, Lonsdale's 18thc women poets, EEBO, and OED, according to
Pasanek at his 'Metaphor of the Mind' website:
http://mind.textdriven.com/db/about.htmlI found fascinating this particular
discovery of his:
In my current book project, *Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind, A
Dictionary*, I analyze a collection of over 8,000 metaphors that I've
assembled from various electronic and traditional sources. I consider the
tacit assumption, shared by a variety of scholars, that changing metaphors
are indicative--if not productive or constitutive--of broader cultural
change. In contrast, my research makes clear that, with few important
exceptions, metaphors of mind in the eighteenth century display astonishing
persistence in the face of Enlightenment ferment and revolutionary change.
Best,
Judy
2009/3/12 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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