Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series)
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Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Evolving over a series of discourses which the book considers at length - Scottish Enlightenment...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107449170
ISBN13:9781107449176
Release Date:June 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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