Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling (2000)
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- Synopsis
- Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. The very reaction against sentimentalism has taught us to identity sentimentality. Fiction, moreover, remains a principal means not just of discriminating quality of feeling but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature.
- Copyright:
- 2000
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230595507
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333721100
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/20
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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