Nervous acts
essays on literature, culture, and sensibility
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Publication
2004 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Language
English
Word Count
98,750 words, Guess
Page Count
395 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15598770M
- ISBN-101403934541
- OCLC Control Number56404513
- Library of Congress Control Number2004051264
- Goodreads6005057
Classifications
- LCCPN56.M38 R68 2004
Description
"Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-century studies. Now these essays have been collected for the first time. The arguments challenge thinking about the Enlightenment and reconfigure the contexts of European sensibility. Since their original publication much criticism and scholarship has been produced that engages, adopts, and expands on Rousseau's discussions. The new introductory essay surveys this fascinating cultural profile from the ancients to the moderns, and provides a personal account of what the author's quest for the past has entailed. The epilogue engages with the critical reception of the original essays and glances at the future of nerves: ethically, morally, and in the light of the stresses of modern life."--BOOK JACKET
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