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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Csengei, I

Titel

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2012

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1. Philosophies and physiologies of feeling -- pt. 2. The literature of sensibility.
• 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.
• English