Sentimentalism, Ethics, and the Culture of Feeling
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 2000
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780312128425
Subjects: History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Sentimentalism in literature; Literature: Classics
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."--BOOK JACKET.