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"--
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| シリーズ: | Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3095327 |
目次:
- 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