Monstrous Dreams of Reason

Monstrous Dreams of Reason
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0838754600
ISBN-13 : 9780838754603
Rating : 4/5 (603 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Monstrous Dreams of Reason by : Laura Jean Rosenthal

Download or read book Monstrous Dreams of Reason written by Laura Jean Rosenthal and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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