Wendy Motooka

The Age of Reasons

Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism. Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka argues that the legacy of sentimentalism is the social sciences. This book raises our understanding of eighteenth-century British culture and its relation to the 'rational' culture of economics that is growing ever more prevasive today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780415862592
• ISBN-10: 0415862590
• Artikelnr.: 37335989

Autorenporträt

Wendy Motooka is Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Turning Authority into Jest
Chapter 2 Common Sense, Moral Sense and Nonsense
Chapter 3 Coming to a Bad End
Chapter 4 Seeing the General View
Chapter 5 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
Chapter 6 Laying Down the General Rule
Chapter 7 Epilogue