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by Adelman, Richard

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"Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of…

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"Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of a distinctly British idealism in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Exploring the work of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and many of their contemporaries, this study pinpoints a debate over human activity and capability taking place between 1750 and 1830, and considers its social and political consequences for the cultural theory of the early nineteenth century"--

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  • Publication Date:2011.

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  • Description:1 online resource (viii,210 p.) : : PDF file(s).

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  • ISBN:9780511675706, 0511675704, 9780521190688, 0521190681
  • oclc:on1229546215

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Aesthetics, British Aesthetics, British -- 18th century Aesthetics, British -- 19th century Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- History and criti… Esthétique britannique -- 18e siècle Esthétique britannique -- 19e siècle Great Britain Idealism in literature Idéalisme dans la littérature Labor in literature Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Romanticism Romanticism -- Great Britain Romantisme -- Grande-Bretagne Solitude dans la littérature Solitude in literature

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Adelman, Richard

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