Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century |
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Editor:
| Porter, Roy Roberts, Marie Mulvey |
ISBN: | 978-0-8147-6644-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
Publisher: | New York University Press
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Imprint: | NYU Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $89.00 |
Book Description:
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Pleasure, wrote Oscar Wilde, is the only thing worth having a theory about. In Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts question the idea of pleasure as unmediated, natural experience. To what extent was pleasure stage-managed to make it socially, morally, and politically acceptable? Taking its cue from Michel ......
Pleasure, wrote Oscar Wilde, is the only thing worth having a theory about. In Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts question the idea of pleasure as unmediated, natural experience. To what extent was pleasure stage-managed to make it socially, morally, and politically acceptable? Taking its cue from Michel ......