02629nam 22006014a 450 991078335420332120230617021851.097866120713621-282-07136-X0-253-11069-6(CKB)1000000000030369(EBL)238832(OCoLC)475949500(SSID)ssj0000133070(PQKBManifestationID)11954005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133070(PQKBWorkID)10039824(PQKB)11356381(MiAaPQ)EBC238832(OCoLC)61519714(MdBmJHUP)muse16897(Au-PeEL)EBL238832(CaPaEBR)ebr10088457(CaONFJC)MIL207136(EXLCZ)99100000000003036920030501d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCruel delight[electronic resource] enlightenment culture and the inhuman /James A. SteintragerBloomington Indiana University Pressc20041 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-21649-4 0-253-34367-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.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.""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 humaniCrueltyHistory18th centuryEnlightenmentCrueltyHistoryEnlightenment.179/.09/034Steintrager James A.1965-1463075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783354203321Cruel delight3699353UNINA