Futile Pleasures [electronic resource] : Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility /
McEleney, Corey,author.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2017.
"Examines the ambivalent role that pleasure plays in early modern English writers' attempts to defend the utility of literature. Traces how that ambivalence gets replayed in modern critical frameworks as well as debates about the value of the humanities and liberal arts"--
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Specialized.
Machine generated contents note: -- Futilitarianism: An Introduction -- 1. Pleasure without Profit -- 2. Bonfire of the Vanities -- 3. Art for Nothing's Sake -- 4. Spenser's Unhappy Ends -- 5. Beyond Sublimation -- Coda: Less Matter, More Art -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Examines the ambivalent role that pleasure plays in early modern English writers' attempts to defend the utility of literature. Traces how that ambivalence gets replayed in modern critical frameworks as well as debates about the value of the humanities and liberal arts"--
Description based on print version record.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Literature and society
Literature and society
Senses and sensation in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
English literature