Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 208 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253216494
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0253343674
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 humanity. Steintrager r
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index
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list of illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. The Model of Moral Monstrosity; 2. The Paradox of Inhumanity; 3. Animals and the Mark of the Human; 4. The Monstrous Face of Curiosity; 5. Science and Insensibility; 6. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Human Vivisection; Epilogue; notes; index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253343673
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cruel Delight : Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman
Language:
English
