Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman / / James A. Steintrager
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| Autore: |
Steintrager James A. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman / / James A. Steintrager
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 179/.09/034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cruelty - History - 18th century |
| Enlightenment | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cruel delight |
| ISBN: | 9786612071362 |
| 1-282-07136-X | |
| 0-253-11069-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807874103321 |
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