I. Csengei
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2012
9781349339044
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781349339044
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349339044
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins PART I: PHILOSOPHIES AND PHYSIOLOGIES OF FEELING Philosophies of Sympathy The Feeling Machine PART II: THE LITERATURE OF SENSIBILITY 'I Will Not Weep': Tears of Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling Women and the Negative: The Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Godwin's Case: Melancholy Mourning in the 'Empire of Feeling' Bibliography Index