Richard Adelman

Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750 1830

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Produktbeschreibung

This study traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781107449176
• ISBN-10: 1107449170
• Artikelnr.: 41093701

Autorenporträt

Richard Adelman is a lifelong resident of Philadelphia. He taught English, computer applications, and filmmaking in public high schools there for thirty-seven years. Besides teaching, Richard worked for many years in the Philadelphia area as a wedding photographer and in Atlantic City as a bartender and restaurant manager. He is previously unpublished. Retired now, he has been spending his literary efforts trying to learn enough French to read the classics. He has two grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The division of labour
2. Utilitarian education and aesthetic education
3. Cowper, Coleridge and Wollstonecraft
4. Coleridge's pantisocracy, biographia and church and state
Conclusion
Epilogue: Wordsworth and Kingsley.