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by Richard Adelman

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Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Evolving over a series of discourses which the book considers at length - Scottish Enlightenment political economy, penal and educational reform debates, literature, British and German aesthetic theory, social philosophy - this debate precipitates the growth of a 'British idealism' in these decades. Exploring the thought of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many of their contemporaries, this study analyses the chain of events that leads to this 'British idealism', and considers its social and political consequences in the cultural theory of the first decades of the nineteenth century.

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  • Title Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830
  • Author Richard Adelman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 220
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2011-05-26
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521190688 / 0521190681
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects English literature - 18th century - History, English literature - 19th century - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011002458
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935
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