Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling

by Michael Bell

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333721101

ISBN13:9780333721100

Release Date:September 2000

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:230 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Social Science Social Sciences

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