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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print I. Csengei 1st ed. 2012 edition
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
I. Csengei
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.
261 pages, XII, 261 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349339044 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 261 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 17 mm · 408 g |