Age of Reasons - Quixotism, Sentimentalism, Political Economy in Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Motooka is Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 of today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Motooka, Motooka Wendy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.1998
• EAN: 9780415179416
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17941-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political Economy, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800, Croatian