Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] /
Csengei, I.author.
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.
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.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.