Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure
by
Rowan Boyson
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN-10
1107023300
ISBN-13
9781107023307
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2012
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 23.50 x 1.90 cms
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The ancient conundrum of pleasure came alive in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. This book takes a new critical approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure and offers an extended reading of this central theme in Wordsworth's poetry and prose.
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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