Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
  Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Titolo Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
AutoreI. Csengei
Prezzo€ 26,72
EditorePalgrave Macmillan
LinguaTesto in Inglese
FormatoAdobe DRM

Descrizione
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.