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 Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780230308442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111588497
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Author
I. Csengei
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
261 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
546g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
I. Csengei
Series Title
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print