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The Poetic Enlightenment

Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820

By: Rowan Boyson

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The Poetic Enlightenment

Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820

By: Rowan Boyson

The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.

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235

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1317319656

ISBN 13

9781317319658

Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure

By: Rowan Boyson

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Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure

By: Rowan Boyson

Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than selfish, and she focuses particularly on this approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure. Through close reading of Enlightenment and Romantic texts, in particular the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth, Boyson elaborates on this central theme. Covering a wide range of texts by philosophers, theorists and creative writers from over the centuries, she presents a strong defence of the Enlightenment ideal of pleasure, drawing out its rich political, as well as intellectual and aesthetic, implications.

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