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Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of a distinctly British idealism in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Exploring the work of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and many of their contemporaries, this study pinpoints a debate over human activity and capability taking place between 1750 and 1830, and considers its social and political consequences for the cultural theory of the early nineteenth century.

English literature --- Romanticism --- Aesthetics, British --- Solitude in literature. --- Labor in literature. --- Idealism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Aesthetics --- Thematology --- English literature --- Literature

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Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity.

English literature --- History and criticism.

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Presenting the latest research in the biology of aging, this volume addresses important theoretical issues focusing on the basis for why humans live as long as they do. Expert authors combine three general paradigms of aging research: demographic studies, evolutionary studies, and studies of biological mechanisms.: Topics explored include:.; Why does aging occur?; Cellular aging; Models in aging research; Modern approaches to the mechanisms of aging; The genetics of behavioral aging

Aging. --- Developmental biology. --- Gerontology. --- Old age. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Adulthood --- Older people --- Social sciences --- Geriatrics --- Development (Biology) --- Biology --- Growth --- Ontogeny --- Physiological effect

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Aging --- Enzymes --- Proteins --- Aging --- Enzymes --- Metabolism --- Congresses. --- Congresses. --- Metabolism --- Age factors --- Congresses. --- congresses. --- metabolism --- congresses. --- in old age --- congresses.