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

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

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Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1349339040
ISBN13: 9781349339044
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2012
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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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