Notes and References
Notes and References PREFACE Marie Mulvey Roberts 1. This line is spoken by Lord Illingworth in A Woman of No Import ance; see Oscar Wilde, Works, ed. G. F. Maine (London: Collins, 1948), p.428. 2. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1990), p. 71. 3. Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p. 58. 4. Ibid., p. 57. 5. Ibid. 6. See Peter Quennell, The Pursuit of Happiness (London: Constable, 1988). 7. See Wilde, Works, p. 1113. 1. ENLIGHTENMENT AND PLEASURE Roy Porter 1. For the Greeks, see A. W. H. Adkins, From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values and Beliefs (London: Constable, 1970); C. M. Bowra, The Greek Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957); H. North, Sophrosyne: Self-knowledge and Self-restraint in Greek Literature (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966). On these and other issues, there is a wealth of learning in John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man (London: Duckworth, 1972); see also Peter Quennell, The Pursuit of Happiness (London: Constable, 1988) . 2. For Renaissance ideas of human nature and destiny, see Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life, trans. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark (Binghamton, NY: The Renaissance Society of America, 1989); Paul Kristeller, Renaissance Thought and its Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Herschel Baker, The Dignity of Man (Cam bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947); J. B. Bamborough, The Little World of Man (London: Longman, Green, 1952).
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