Futile Pleasures : Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility /
Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First BookAgainst the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose def...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Futilitarianism: An Introduction
- 1. Pleasure without Profit
- 2. Bonfire of the Vanities
- 3. Art for Nothing's Sake
- 4. Spenser's Unhappy Ends
- 5. Beyond Sublimation
- Coda: Less Matter, More Art
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index