Sympathy, sensibility and the literature of feeling in the eighteenth century
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Sympathy, sensibility and the literature of feeling in the eighteenth century
（Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- : softcover
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"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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