Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century write by I. Csengei. This book was released on 2011-12-13. Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel write by Ann Jessie van Sant. This book was released on 2004-05-20. Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel's location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the 'man of feeling' (notably in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.
The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination
The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination write by Roman Alexander Barton. This book was released on 2020-07-20. The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.
The Discourse of Sensibility
The Discourse of Sensibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Discourse of Sensibility write by Henry Martyn Lloyd. This book was released on 2013-12-12. The Discourse of Sensibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter into an interdisciplinary space and so to invite the plurality of methodological approaches which this collection exemplifies. The chapters collected here draw together the histories of literature and aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, moral theory, medicine, and cultural history. Together, they contribute to four major themes: First, the collection reconstructs various modes by which the sympathetic subject was construed or scripted, including through the theatre, poetry, literature, and medical and philosophical treaties. It secondly draws out those techniques of affective pedagogy which were implied by the medicalisation of the knowing body, and thirdly highlights the manner in which the body of sensibility was constructed as simultaneously particular and universal. Finally, it illustrates the ‘centrifugal forces’ at play within the discourse, and the anxiety which often accompanied them. At the centre of eighteenth-century thought was a very particular object: the body of sensibility, the Enlightenment’s knowing body. The persona of the knowledge-seeker was constructed by drawing together mind and matter, thought and feeling. And so where the Enlightenment thinker is generally associated with reason, truth-telling, and social and political reform, the Enlightenment is also known for its valorisation of emotion. During the period, intellectual pursuits were envisioned as having a distinctly embodied and emotional aspect. The body of ‘sensibility’ encompassed these apparently disparate strands and was associated with terms including ‘sentimental’, ‘sentiment’, ‘sense’, ‘sensation’, and ‘sympathy’.
Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture write by Richard Meek. This book was released on 2023-04-13. Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy was used to refer to an active and imaginative sharing of affect considerably earlier than previous critical and historical accounts have suggested. Investigating a wide range of texts and genres, including prose fiction, sermons, poetic complaint, drama, political tracts, and scientific treatises, Richard Meek demonstrates the ways in which sympathy in the period is bound up with larger debates about society, religion, and identity. He also reveals the extent to which early modern emotions were not simply humoral or grounded in the body, but rather relational, comparative, and intertextual. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Renaissance literature and history, the history of emotions, and the history and philosophy of science.
