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Steintrager James A. <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Cruel delight [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment culture and the inhuman / / James A. Steintrager |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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9786612071362 |
1-282-07136-X |
0-253-11069-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cruelty - History - 18th century |
Enlightenment |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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""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 |
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