Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Author:   Joseph Acquisto
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030610135


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Joseph Acquisto
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.534kg
ISBN:  

9783030610135


ISBN 10:   3030610136
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not available   Availability explained
This product is no longer available from the original publisher or manufacturer. There may be a chance that we can source it as a discontinued product.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction2 Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative3 Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France4 Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the “As-If”5 Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination6 Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now

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“This book is an ambitious endeavor, drawing from an extensive range of sources and thinkers. It is well-written and coherent ... . Scholars of literature, philosophy, culture studies, and intellectual history will find this volume inspiring and insightful; moreover, it will appeal to specialists of nineteenth[1]century French literature as well as readers of the history of ideas in general.” (Karen Humphreys, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, ncfs-journal.org, Vol. 52 (3-4), 2024)


Author Information

Joseph Acquisto is a Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA.  His books include Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance (2020), Proust, Music, and Meaning (2017), The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (2015), and French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (2006). 

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