 | Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Pleasure in literature; Senses and sensation in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Examines the ambivalent role that pleasure plays in early modern English writers' attempts to defend the utility of literature. Traces how that ambivalence gets replayed in modern critical frameworks as well as debates about the value of the humanities and liberal arts. McEleney Corey : Corey McEleney is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University. |
