Sympathy, sensibility and the literature of feeling in the eighteenth century

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become partof 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. ILDIKO CSENGEI Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Newnham College, Cambridge, UK. Previously she taught at the University of Southampton, UK, and held an R.A. Butler Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Her articles on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature appeared in 'Modern Language Review', 'Romantic Circles Praxis' 'Series' and 'Studies in Romanticism'. INDICE: Acknowledgments - Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins - PART I: PHILOSOPHIES AND PHYSIOLOGIES OF FEELING - Philosophies of Sympathy - TheFeeling 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 - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30844-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 30/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés