Against better judgment : irrational action and literary invention in the long eighteenth century /

"This book traces how, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the problem of irrational action was eliminated from philosophical discourse yet flourished in literature, resulting in new literary innovations"--

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Manganaro, Thomas Salem, 1987- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Cyfres:Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3095327
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Akrasia and explanation in enlightenment philosophy
  • Some encounters with akrasia in eighteenth-century prose fiction: Defoe, Haywoood, Sterne
  • Akrasia and free indirect discourse in Romantic-era novels
  • Godwin and Austen
  • Akrasia, life writing, and interpretation: Johnson and Rousseau
  • Akrasia and the poety of antinomies: Wordsworth and Keats
  • Epilogue: the story of akrasia