Enlightened sentiments : judgment and autonomy in the age of sensibility / [electronic resource]
Nazar, Hina.
New York : Fordham University Press,
c2012.
This title reassesses the Enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of 18th-century letters known as 'sentimentalism'. Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly affective culture of sensibility elides its critical motif of moral and aesthetic judgment.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Reconstructing sentimentalism -- Sentimentalism and the discourses of freedom : the aesthetic analogy from Hume to Arendt -- Judging Clarissa's heart -- A sentimental education : Rousseau to Godwin -- Judgment, propriety, and the critique of sensibility: the "sentimental" Jane Austen.
This title reassesses the Enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of 18th-century letters known as 'sentimentalism'. Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly affective culture of sensibility elides its critical motif of moral and aesthetic judgment.
Description based on print version record.
Judgment in literature.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
English fiction
French fiction
Sentimentalism in literature.
Judgment (Ethics)
Autonomy (Philosophy)
Aesthetics, Modern
Literature, Modern