Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
| Author: | I. Csengei | ISBN: | 9780230359178 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | December 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | I. Csengei |
| ISBN: | 9780230359178 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | December 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
