Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModernFictionEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshSemiotics & TheoryLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2011Book
Author(s)Ildiko Csengei
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230308442
LanguageEnglish
