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Failures of Feeling : Insensibility and the Novel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503607477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Failures of FeelingLOC classification:
  • PR830.E46 .L44 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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