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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century, Paperback / softback Book

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century Paperback / softback

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print series

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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.

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