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.

The Discourse of Sensibility

The Discourse of Sensibility
Title The Discourse of Sensibility PDF eBook
Author Henry Martyn Lloyd
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 222
Release 2013-12-12
Genre Science
ISBN 3319027026

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This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter into an interdisciplinary space and so to invite the plurality of methodological approaches which this collection exemplifies. The chapters collected here draw together the histories of literature and aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, moral theory, medicine, and cultural history. Together, they contribute to four major themes: First, the collection reconstructs various modes by which the sympathetic subject was construed or scripted, including through the theatre, poetry, literature, and medical and philosophical treaties. It secondly draws out those techniques of affective pedagogy which were implied by the medicalisation of the knowing body, and thirdly highlights the manner in which the body of sensibility was constructed as simultaneously particular and universal. Finally, it illustrates the ‘centrifugal forces’ at play within the discourse, and the anxiety which often accompanied them. At the centre of eighteenth-century thought was a very particular object: the body of sensibility, the Enlightenment’s knowing body. The persona of the knowledge-seeker was constructed by drawing together mind and matter, thought and feeling. And so where the Enlightenment thinker is generally associated with reason, truth-telling, and social and political reform, the Enlightenment is also known for its valorisation of emotion. During the period, intellectual pursuits were envisioned as having a distinctly embodied and emotional aspect. The body of ‘sensibility’ encompassed these apparently disparate strands and was associated with terms including ‘sentimental’, ‘sentiment’, ‘sense’, ‘sensation’, and ‘sympathy’.

The Man of Feeling

The Man of Feeling
Title The Man of Feeling PDF eBook
Author Henry Mackenzie
Publisher
Pages 262
Release 1780
Genre
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