Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter

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 Foucault, this volume represents a stunning example of the pleasures of analysis, a place where discourse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814766447
• ISBN13: 9780814766446
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"