02445oam 22005774a 450 991015464040332120230810001123.00-8232-7270-20-8232-7267-20-8232-7269-9(CKB)3710000000908882(MiAaPQ)EBC4681091(StDuBDS)EDZ0001719137(OCoLC)961105731(MdBmJHUP)muse52673(EXLCZ)99371000000090888220160613h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFutile pleasures early modern literature and the limits of utility /Corey McEleneyFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2017.©2017.1 online resourceThis edition previously issued in print: 2017.0-8232-7265-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Futilitarianism: An Introduction -- 1. Pleasure without Profit -- 2. Bonfire of the Vanities -- 3. Art for Nothing's Sake -- 4. Spenser's Unhappy Ends -- 5. Beyond Sublimation -- Coda: Less Matter, More Art -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Examines the ambivalent role that pleasure plays in early modern English writers' attempts to defend the utility of literature. Traces how that ambivalence gets replayed in modern critical frameworks as well as debates about the value of the humanities and liberal arts"--Provided by publisher.Literature and societyEnglandHistory17th centuryLiterature and societyEnglandHistory16th centurySenses and sensation in literaturePleasure in literatureEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiterature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistorySenses and sensation in literature.Pleasure in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/003820.9003McEleney Corey772254MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910154640403321Futile pleasures1576519UNINA