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Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Autor Cecilia Miller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2016
The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction, not the theory, of this age. Amusingly, many of these abstract ideas were presented for the first time in stories featuring less-than-gifted central characters. The five particular works of fiction examined here, which this book takes as embodying the core of the Enlightenment, focus more on the individual than on social group. Nevertheless, in these same works of fiction, this individual has responsibilities as well as rights—and these responsibilities and rights apply to every individual, across the board, regardless of social class, financial status, race, age, or gender. Unlike studies of the Enlightenment which focus only on theory and nonfiction, this study of fiction makes evident that there was a vibrant concern for the constructive as well as destructive aspects of emotion during the Enlightenment, rather than an exclusive concern for rationality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138954175
ISBN-10: 1138954179
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Don Quixote (1605, 1615), Rationality, and Forms of Government  2. Simplicissimus (1668, 1669), Religious Toleration, and Friendship  3. Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), Science, and Social Class  4. Candide (1759), Sexuality, and the Modern Individual  5. The Betrothed (1825-1827, 1840-1842), Revolution, and the Perfectibility of the Human Mind.  Conclusion.

Descriere

This book maintains that it was not passive reception but active participation of readers—including those who listened to fiction read out loud—that fostered the Enlightenment. The decision to engage in intellectual debates, grounded in ideas often first found in fiction, allowed everyday people to participate in the questioning, and eventually the decision-making, of their own states.