Anne C Vila

Suffering Scholars

Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anne C. Vila is the Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249927
• ISBN-10: 0812249925
• Artikelnr.: 48957283

Autorenporträt

Anne C. Vila is the Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89
Chapter 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist
Chapter 3. Passions and the Philosophe
Chapter 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot
Chapter 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of
Rousseau and Staël
Chapter 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the
Revolution
Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?
Notes
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index
Acknowledgments