Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman

by James Steintrager

Book Overview

"An important contribution to studies of eighteenth-century culture and to literary history and theory and for those with an interest in horror, sentimentality, the invention of the modern individual, and ethics of 'the human.'"
-Daniel Cottom, David A. Burr Chair of Letters, University of Oklahoma

Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman investigates the fascination with joyful malice in eighteenth-century Europe and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216494
• ISBN13: 9780253216496
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher