Search Results for: The Puritan And The Cynic

Why do Americans, and so often, American writers, profess moral sentiments and yet write so little in the traditionally "moralistic" genres of maxim and fable?

This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.

This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition ass

Asks: how did ancient Cynic philosophy come to provide a name for its modern, unphilosophical counterpart, and what events caused such a dramatic reversal of cy

This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends di