Wanton Motion in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Sara Landreth Fiction " -Tao Wong

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Wanton Motion in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Sara Landreth Fiction " -Tao WongHow can words capture what it feels like to be a body moving through space? In charting how the aesthetics of motion mattered to eighteenth century literature, print culture, theatre, and legal debates, Sara Landreth refocuses the period's fascination with the abstraction of 'selfhood' toward embodied kinetic processes that reveal the fictionality of selfhood altogether. This important study makes the case for wantonness as an aesthetic category in