Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Authors: Csengei, I.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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ILDIKO CSENGEI is aLeverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Newnham College, Cambridge, UK. Previously she taught at the University of Southampton, UK, and held an R.A. Butler Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Her articles on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature appeared in Modern Language Review, Romantic Circles Praxis Series and Studies in Romanticism.
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“Ildiko Csengei’s Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century is a capacious study of a topic that has and will continue to have broad interest for eighteenth-century scholars. … Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling is readable and engaging throughout and is supported both by extensive substantive notes and by a careful bibliography.” (Ann Van Sant, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 (3), Spring, 2016)
"Ildiko Csengei's Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century . . . addresses the overlap between philosophy, psychology, and medicine . . . Many of the authors covered by Csengei are familiar figures in the canons of sensibility - Shaftesbury, Hume, Smith, Richardson, Mackenzie, Rousseau - but careful yet imaginative readings offer new insights." - Years' Work in English Studies
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins
Pages 1-26
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Philosophies of Sympathy
Pages 29-74
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The Feeling Machine
Pages 75-118
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‘I Will Not Weep’: Tears of Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
Pages 121-139
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Women and the Negative: The Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Pages 140-168
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
- Authors
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- I. Csengei
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-35917-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230359178
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33904-4
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6516
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 261
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