Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman / James A. Steintrager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steintrager, James A., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cruelty--History--18th century.

Cruelty.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""An important contribution to studies of eighteenth-century culture and to literary history and theory and for those with an interest in horror, sentimentality, the invention of the modern individual, and ethics of 'the human.'"" -Daniel Cottom, David A. Burr Chair of Letters, University of Oklahoma Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman investigates the fascination with joyful malice in eighteenth-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humani

Contents:

The inhuman

The model of moral monstrosity

The paradox of inhumanity

Curiosity killed the cat

Animals and the mark of the human

The monstrous face of curiosity

The bedside manner of the Marquis de Sade

Science and insensibility

The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

ISBN:

9786612071362

1-282-07136-X

0-253-11069-6

OCLC:

475949500