Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

By Joseph Acquisto

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030610160
• ISBN13: 9783030610166
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"