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Traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy cannot, leading them to develop techniques and ideas distinctive to literary writing, including new uses of irony, interpretation, and contradiction.

Against Better Judgment Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813947297, 978-0813947297
      ISBN10: 0813947294

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      Book Synopsis
      Traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy cannot, leading them to develop techniques and ideas distinctive to literary writing, including new uses of irony, interpretation, and contradiction.

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