Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

| Titolo | Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century | Autore | I. Csengei | Prezzo | € 26,72 | Editore | Palgrave Macmillan | Lingua | Testo in Inglese | Formato | Adobe DRM | |
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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.
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