PLEASURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Opis produktu

Roy Porter is Professor of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and author of a number of books including London: A Social History./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 stagemanaged 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 about pleasure is a pleasure in its own right. From crossdressing to feasting music to charity work the essays in this volume probe the foundations of eighteenthcentury society while entertaining the reader vicariously with their tales of vanished delights. /

Data Publikacji: 1996-10-01
Wymiary: 229 mm 152 mm