Inger Sigrun Brodey

Ruined by Design (eBook, PDF)

Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136095306
• Artikelnr.: 45134428

Autorenporträt

An award-winning teacher and essayist, Dr. Brodey is Assistant Professor in English and Comparative Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published extensively on Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Preromanticism, and the Culture of Sensibility.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sensibility and its Discontents
Chapter One: Redeeming Ruin
Chapter Two: The Anatomy of Follies
Chapter Three: Reading Ruin
Chapter Four: Constructing Human Ruin
Afterword: The Luxuries of Distress
Notes
Index