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

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.

Author: I. Csengei
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2012
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781349339044
2012 Edition