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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Ildiko Csengei
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Description for Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
paperback. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) index. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Number of Pages
261
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349339044
SKU
V9781349339044
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99-15
About Ildiko Csengei
ILDIKO CSENGEI is aLeverhulme 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
“Ildiko Csengei’s Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century is a capacious study of a topic that has and will continue to have broad interest for eighteenth-century scholars. … Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling is readable and engaging throughout and is supported both by extensive substantive notes and by a careful bibliography.” (Ann Van ... Read more