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Wordsworth and the enlightenment idea of pleasure / Rowan Boyson.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyson, Rowan, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 95.
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 95
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Philosophy.
- Wordsworth, William.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pleasure in literature.
- Pleasure--Philosophy.
- Pleasure.
- Enlightenment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Wordsworth & the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-139-85412-7
- 1-107-23601-0
- 1-139-84268-4
- 1-139-84030-4
- 1-139-84593-4
- 1-139-84504-7
- 1-139-15100-2
- 1-283-83626-2
- 1-139-84149-1
- OCLC:
- 818734276
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