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

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Title Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author I. Csengei
Publisher Springer
Pages 272
Release 2011-12-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230359175

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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.

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

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Title Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author I. Csengei
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 0
Release 2011-12-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780230308442

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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.

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Title Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Richard Meek
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 303
Release 2023-04-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009280279

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This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy was used to refer to an active and imaginative sharing of affect considerably earlier than previous critical and historical accounts have suggested. Investigating a wide range of texts and genres, including prose fiction, sermons, poetic complaint, drama, political tracts, and scientific treatises, Richard Meek demonstrates the ways in which sympathy in the period is bound up with larger debates about society, religion, and identity. He also reveals the extent to which early modern emotions were not simply humoral or grounded in the body, but rather relational, comparative, and intertextual. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Renaissance literature and history, the history of emotions, and the history and philosophy of science.

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Title Eighteenth-Century Vitalism PDF eBook
Author C. Packham
Publisher Springer
Pages 255
Release 2012-01-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230368395

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This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel
Title Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel PDF eBook
Author Ann Jessie van Sant
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 168
Release 2004-05-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521604581

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This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel's location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the 'man of feeling' (notably in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.

Vicarious Narratives

Vicarious Narratives
Title Vicarious Narratives PDF eBook
Author Jeanne M. Britton
Publisher
Pages 247
Release 2019
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 019884669X

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Studies the experiences of sympathy that literary characters share with each other and argues that between 1750 and 1850, key works of British and French fiction generated a specific version of sympathy by manipulating traditional narrative forms and new publication practices in response to the Enlightenment.

The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century

The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Title The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Albert J. Rivero
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 259
Release 2019-03-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108418929

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Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.