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’.
Sensibility in the Early Modern Era
Sensibility in the Early Modern Era - 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 Sensibility in the Early Modern Era write by Anik Waldow. This book was released on 2016. Sensibility in the Early Modern Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the body could give way to complex considerations about the importance of affect in morality. What underlies this understanding of sensibility is the attempt to fuse Lockean sensationism with Scottish sentimentalism - being able to have experiences of objects in the world is here seen as being grounded in the same principle that also enables us to feel moral sentiments. Moral and epistemic ways of relating to the world thus blend into one another, as both can be traced to the same capacity that enables us to affectively respond to stimuli that impinge on our perceptual apparatus. This collection focuses on these connections by offering reflections on the role of sensibility in the early modern attempt to think of the human being as a special kind of sensitive machine and affectively responsive animal. Humans, as they are understood in this context, relate to themselves by sensing themselves and perpetually refining their intellectual and moral capacities in response to the way the world affects them. Responding to the world here refers to the manner in which both natural and man-made influences impact on our ability to conceptualise the animate and inanimate world, and our place within that world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review.
Poetry and the Commodification of Discourse in the Age of Sensibility
Poetry and the Commodification of Discourse in the Age 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 Poetry and the Commodification of Discourse in the Age of Sensibility write by Kenneth Michael Brothers. This book was released on 1992. Poetry and the Commodification of Discourse in the Age of Sensibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sense & Sensibility
Sense & 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 Sense & Sensibility write by Jane Austen. This book was released on 2023-12-14. Sense & Sensibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Mr. Henry Dashwood dies, his house, Norland Park, must pass directly to his grandson, the son of John Dashwood, the child of the elder Dashwood's first wife. His second wife, Mrs. Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a small income, but John makes a promise to his father that he will take care of his half-sisters. However, John's greedy wife, Fanny, persuades him to renege on the promise and the Dashwood women soon become the unwelcome guests in Norland Park. Mrs. Dashwood decides to move her family to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, near the home of her cousin, Sir John Middleton. The story follows the young women to their new home with their widowed mother, a meager cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
The Poetics of Sensibility
The Poetics 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 Poetics of Sensibility write by Jerome J. McGann. This book was released on 1998. The Poetics of Sensibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Poetics of Sensibility takes as its prime aim the neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies as either poetry of sensibility or poetry of sentiment.
