Living well with pessimism in nineteenth-century France

Living well with pessimism in nineteenth-century France / Joseph Acquisto.

This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude...

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Main Author: Acquisto, Joseph, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Pessimism in literature.
Pessimism > France > History > 19th century.
French literature
Pessimism
Pessimism in literature
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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