Wendy Motooka: 1 book
The Age of Reasons
Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism....
