Book contents
- Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
- Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Aristotelian vitality ascendant
- Part II Aristotelian vitality embattled
- Part III Aristotelian vitality undead
- Chapter 5 “Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy”: Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love
- Coda: beyond undeath
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 5 - “Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy”: Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love
from Part III - Aristotelian vitality undead
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
- Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Aristotelian vitality ascendant
- Part II Aristotelian vitality embattled
- Part III Aristotelian vitality undead
- Chapter 5 “Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy”: Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love
- Coda: beyond undeath
- Notes
- Index
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- Sleep, Romance and Human EmbodimentVitality from Spenser to Milton, pp. 133 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012