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Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830
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Hardcover
from Cambridge Univ Pr (June 30, 2011)
9780521190688 | details & prices | 203 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $94.99
Paperback
from Cambridge Univ Pr (June 26, 2014)
9781107449176 | details & prices | 220 pages | List price $29.99
About: 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.
About: 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.