Monstrous dreams of reason
Mita Choudhury, Laura J. Rosenthal · 2002
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"This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the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."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 292
- ISBN
- 9780838754603
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