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Against better judgment : irrational action and literary invention in the long eighteenth century / Thomas Salem Manganaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manganaro, Thomas Salem, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
- Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500 to 1700.
- Act (Philosophy) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book traces how, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the problem of irrational action was eliminated from philosophical discourse yet flourished in literature, resulting in new literary innovations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Akrasia and explanation in enlightenment philosophy
- Some encounters with akrasia in eighteenth-century prose fiction: Defoe, Haywoood, Sterne
- Akrasia and free indirect discourse in Romantic-era novels
- Godwin and Austen
- Akrasia, life writing, and interpretation: Johnson and Rousseau
- Akrasia and the poety of antinomies: Wordsworth and Keats
- Epilogue: the story of akrasia
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813947310
- 0813947316
- OCLC:
- 1275431903
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