Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century Hardback
by Ildiko Csengei
Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print series
Hardback
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:261 pages, XII, 261 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/12/2011
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- ISBN:9780230308442
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:261 pages, XII, 261 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230308442