Monstrous Dreams of Reason
Subtitle: Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Contributors: Laura J. Rosenthal (Editor); Mita Choudhury (Editor)
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780838754603
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Intellectual life; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Modern - 18th Century; Enlightenment; 18th century
Description: "This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the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.

The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class, and sexuality have, through their challenges to a less empirical, rational, and universalizing past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed. They explore a wide range of texts, from Georgic poetry to crime stories, from illness narratives to travel journals, from theatrical performances to medical discourse, and from political treatises to the novel."--BOOK JACKET.