UID:
edocfu_9959239597102883
Format:
1 online resource (228 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612071362
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1-282-07136-X
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0-253-11069-6
Content:
""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 this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humani
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The inhuman -- The model of moral monstrosity -- The paradox of inhumanity -- Curiosity killed the cat -- Animals and the mark of the human -- The monstrous face of curiosity -- The bedside manner of the Marquis de Sade -- Science and insensibility -- The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-21649-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34367-4
Language:
English
