Idleness, contemplation and the aesthetic, 1750 - 1830
"Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the Britis...
| Published in: | Cambridge studies in romanticism |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2011
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| In: |
Cambridge studies in romanticism (89)
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge studies in romanticism
89 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Literature
/ Romance
/ Reflection (Philosophy)
/ Laziness (Motif)
/ History 1750-1830
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| Further subjects: | B
Aesthetics, British 18th century
B Idealism in literature B Aesthetics, British 19th century B English literature 19th century History and criticism B Solitude in literature B Labor in literature B English literature 18th century History and criticism B Romanticism (Great Britain) |
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| Summary: | "Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of a distinctly British idealism in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Exploring the work of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and many of their contemporaries, this study pinpoints a debate over human activity and capability taking place between 1750 and 1830, and considers its social and political consequences for the cultural theory of the early nineteenth century"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0521190681 |