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Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

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  • © 1996
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Editors:
  1. Roy Porter
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  2. Marie Mulvey Roberts
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Part of the book series: Themes in Focus (TIF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Enlightenment and Pleasure

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 1-18

  3. Material Pleasures in the Consumer Society

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 19-35

  4. The Pleasures of the Table

    • Simon Varey
    Pages 36-47

  5. Pleasures Engendered by Gender: Homosociality and the Club

    • Marie Mulvey Roberts
    Pages 48-76

  6. ‘The Luxury of Doing Good’: Benevolence, Sensibility, and the Royal Humane Society

    • Carolyn D. Williams
    Pages 77-107

  7. The Seductions of Conduct: Pleasure and Conduct Literature

    • Vivien Jones
    Pages 108-132

  8. ’Strains of New Beauty’: Handel and the Pleasures of Italian Opera, 1711–28

    • Derek Alsop
    Pages 133-163

  9. The Pleasure of Terror: Paradox in Edmund Burke’s Theory of the Sublime

    • E. J. Clery
    Pages 164-181

  10. Burns and Wordsworth: Art and ‘The Pleasure which there is in life itself’

    • Susan Manning
    Pages 182-206

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 207-273
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About this book

What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and practice of the pleasure-seeking Georgians. Experts on the arts of pleasure will luxuriate over Italian opera, gastronomic delights, the pleasures of Gothic terror, seduction, and the revellers of the bizarre London clubs.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

  • Editors: Roy Porter, Marie Mulvey Roberts

  • Series Title: Themes in Focus

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24962-6

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 296

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Social History

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