Sympathy, sensibility and the literature of feeling in the eighteenth century [electronic resource]

• 作者： Csengei, Ildiko.
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• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
• 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
• 主題： English literature--18th century--History and criticism. , Emotions in literature , Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature. , Sympathy in literature , Electronic books. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230359178 (electronic bk.) 、 0230359175 (electronic bk.) 、 9780230308442 (Cloth) 、 0230308449 (Cloth) 、 9786613381286 、 6613381284
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins -- PART I: PHILOSOPHIES AND PHYSIOLOGIES OF FEELING -- Philosophies of Sympathy -- The Feeling Machine -- PART II: THE LITERATURE OF SENSIBILITY -- 'I Will Not Weep': Tears of Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling -- Women and the Negative: The Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- Godwin's Case: Melancholy Mourning in the 'Empire of Feeling' -- Bibliography -- Index.
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• 摘要註: Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century asks what makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of sensibility : a cultural trend of compassion, benevolence and humanitarianism in the eighteenth-century. Csengei undertakes to investigate the darker side of sensibility by exploring forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swooning and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century contexts. The book offers fresh interpretations of core literary texts of sensibility (by Sarah Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henry Mackenzie), works by its most central philosophers (Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith), medical writings about sympathy, sensibility and irritability (Albrecht von Haller, Robert Whytt, La Mettrie), late eighteenth-century critiques of sensibility by Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Inchbald, along with William Godwin's papers, letters and diary. It also explores connections between eighteenth-century forms of feeling and more recent sciences of the psyche from psychoanalysis to the neurosciences.
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