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Idleness, contemplation and the aesthetic, 1750-1830 /
"Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the Britis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of a distinctly British idealism in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Exploring the work of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and many of their contemporaries, this study pinpoints a debate over human activity and capability taking place between 1750 and 1830, and considers its social and political consequences for the cultural theory of the early nineteenth century"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139093040 1139093045 9781139092029 1139092022 9780511675706 0511675704 9781107449176 1107449170 1139088750 9781139088756 1107213738 9781107213739 1283127482 9781283127486 1139092537 9781139092531 9786613127488 6613127485 1139090224 9781139090223 1139091131 9781139091138 |