Monstrous Dreams of Reason - Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment

This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety of cultural and ideological formations.

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Edited by Mita Choudhury and Laura J. Rosenthal

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This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety of cultural and ideological formations.

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• Authors: Mita Choudhury, Mita Choudhury
• Assisted by: Mita Choudhury (Editor), Laura Rosenthal (Editor), Laura J Rosenthal (Editor), Laura J. Rosenthal (Editor)
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611481266
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-126-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 618 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies