Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Csengei, Ildiko |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-230-30844-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.