Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780333721100
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Semiotics & Theory; History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Sentimentalism in literature
Description: "Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends the value of feeling against a customary distrust or condescension by analysing the creation of a culture of feeling out of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment. This study foregrounds how fiction remains a principal means not just of discriminating quality of feeling but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature."--Jacket.