Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century E-Book

I. Csengei

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

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.