Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman

by James Steintrager

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"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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0253216494

ISBN13:9780253216496

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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