Sympathy Sensibility And The Literature Of Feeling In The Eighteenth Century

Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230359175
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century written by I. Csengei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ann Jessie van Sant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604581
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel written by Ann Jessie van Sant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Heather Kerr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137455411
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture written by Heather Kerr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.

Author : Roman Alexander Barton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110625318
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination written by Roman Alexander Barton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Meek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009280260
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture written by Richard Meek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

Author : Jolene Zigarovich
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512823783
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Jolene Zigarovich and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. Drawing on a variety of historical discourses--such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons--the book contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel not only offers new insights about the effect of a growing secularization and commodification of death on the culture and its productions, but also fills critical gaps in the history of death, using narrative as a distinct literary marker. As anatomists dissected, undertakers preserved, jewelers encased, and artists figured the corpse, so too the novelist portrayed bodily artifacts. Why are these morbid forms of materiality entombed in the novel? Jolene Zigarovich addresses this complex question by claiming that the body itself--its parts, or its preserved representation--functioned as secular memento, suggesting that preserved remains became symbols of individuality and subjectivity. To support the conception that in this period notions of self and knowing center upon theories of the tactile and material, the chapters are organized around sensory conceptions and bodily materials such as touch, preserved flesh, bowel, heart, wax, hair, and bone. Including numerous visual examples, the book also argues that the relic represents the slippage between corpse and treasure, sentimentality and materialism, and corporeal fetish and aesthetic accessory. Zigarovich's analysis compels us to reassess the eighteenth-century response to and representation of the dead and dead-like body, and its material purpose and use in fiction. In a broader framework, Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel also narrates a history of the novel that speaks to the cultural formation of modern individualism.

Author : Julia Banister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108168884
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815 written by Julia Banister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedings, this book examines eighteenth-century arguments about masculinity and those that appealed to the 'naturally' sexed body and construed masculinity as social construction and performance. Julia Banister's discussion draws on a range of printed materials, including canonical literary and philosophical texts by David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole and Jane Austen, and texts relating to the naval trials of, amongst others, Admiral John Byng. By mapping eighteenth-century ideas about militarism, including professionalism and heroism, alongside broader cultural concerns with politeness, sensibility, the Gothic past and celebrity, Julia Banister reveals how ideas about masculinity and militarism were shaped by and within eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418929
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century written by Albert J. Rivero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

Author : Katrin Berndt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110649896
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Katrin Berndt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.

Author : Fabian Klose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033840
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Cause of Humanity written by Fabian Klose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the international community should react to violations of humanitarian norms and humanitarian crises first emerged as a key topic of controversy and debate. Fabian Klose investigates the emergence of legal debates on the protection of humanitarian norms by violent means, revealing how military intervention under the banner of humanitarianism became closely intertwined with imperial and colonial projects. Through case studies including the international fight against the slave trade, the military interventions under the banner of humanitarian aid for Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire, and the intervention of the United States in the Cuban War of Independence, he shows how the idea of humanitarian intervention established itself as a recognized instrument in international politics and international law.