Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0838754600 ISBN 13: 9780838754603

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 2001

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This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety of cultural and ideological formations. The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class, and sexuality have, through their challenges to a less empirical, rational, and universalizing past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed. They explore a wide range of texts, from Georgic poetry to crime stories, from illness narratives to travel journals, from theatrical performances to medical discourse, and from political treatises to the novel.

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ROSENTHAL, L. J. / M. CHOUDHURY, EDS. MONSTROUS DREAMS OF REASON. BODY, SELF, AND OTHER IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT. , 2002, 292 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0838754600
• ISBN 13: 9780838754603
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Redattore: Rosenthal Laura J., Choudhury Mita