Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment

by Mita Choudhury

Monstrous Dreams of Reason explores one of the most enduring and intriguing paradoxes of the British Enlightenment: how reason gives rise to both the beneficial and the monstrous.

This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481260
• ISBN13: 9781611481266
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 292 Pages