Romantic Intimacy

Zusatztext "Yousef grounds her intellectually exciting book in mid-century-philosophy, offering a careful analysis of eighteenth-century moral philosophers and an extended discussion of Rousseau's utopian literature, but then focuses the majority of the discussion on fiction and poetry from 1790–1820, with an extension in early twentieth-century psychoanalysis and contemporary performance art . . . Yousef makes a bold claim about Romantic-era literature's intervention in ideas about sympathy, offering the term 'intimacy' to describe and recover 'failures' of sympathy. The big ideas in this book promise to open into years of discussion." Informationen zum Autor Nancy Yousef is Professor of English at the City University of New York. Klappentext This book explores the conceptual complexity and formal challenges posed by the concept of intimacy in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This book explores the conceptual complexity and formal challenges posed by the concept of intimacy in eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Yousef Nancy, Nancy Yousef
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2013
• EAN: 9780804786096
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8609-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism