Failures of Feeling : Insensibility and the Novel.
Lee, Wendy Anne.
Failures of Feeling : Insensibility and the Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (250 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Bartleby Problem -- 1. A Brief History of the Prude -- 2. Clarissa's Marble Heart -- 3. The Man of No Feeling -- 4. Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy -- CONCLUSION: Death Wish for the Novel -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Enlightenment philosophy and fiction to the history of emotions, and reframing our contemporary theories of mind and of the novel.
9781503607477
English fiction-History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Fiction-Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
PR830.E46 .L44 2019
Failures of Feeling : Insensibility and the Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (250 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Bartleby Problem -- 1. A Brief History of the Prude -- 2. Clarissa's Marble Heart -- 3. The Man of No Feeling -- 4. Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy -- CONCLUSION: Death Wish for the Novel -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Enlightenment philosophy and fiction to the history of emotions, and reframing our contemporary theories of mind and of the novel.
9781503607477
English fiction-History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Fiction-Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
PR830.E46 .L44 2019