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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyson, Rowan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 95.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Pleasure philosophy. 1. Aesthetics of pleasure : Shaftesbury, Kant, and the sensus communis ; 2. Powers of pleasure : Rousseau and Wollstonecraft
  • pt. 2. Wordsworth's common pleasure. 3. Poetics of pleasure in Lyrical ballads ; 4. Economies of affect in The prelude and Home at Grasmere ; 5. The politics of happiness in The excursion.