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Wordsworth and the enlightenment idea of pleasure /
"Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rath...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
95. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than selfish, and she focuses particularly on this approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure. Through close reading of Enlightenment and Romantic texts, in particular the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth, Boyson elaborates on this central theme. Covering a wide range of texts by philosophers, theorists and creative writers from over the centuries, she presents a strong defence of the Enlightenment ideal of pleasure, drawing out its rich political, as well as intellectual and aesthetic, implications"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781139840309 1139840304 1139842684 9781139842686 9781139151009 1139151002 1283836262 9781283836265 9781107566415 110756641X 1139854127 9781139854122 1107236010 9781107236011 1139845934 9781139845939 1139845047 9781139845045 1139841491 9781139841498 |