Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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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.

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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.

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