Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling
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Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling

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Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling

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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 but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature.

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Yes, you can access Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling by M. Bell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences sociales & Théorie de la critique littéraire. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Introduction: the Transformations of Sentiment
  5. 1. ‘Affective Individualism' and the Cult of Sentiment
  6. 2. Feeling and/as Fiction: Illusion, Absorption and Emotional Quixotry
  7. 3. Friedrich Schiller and the Aestheticizing of Sentiment
  8. 4. Wordsworth: the Man of Feeling, Recollected Emotion and the `Sentiment of Being'
  9. 5. Victorian Sentimentality: the Dialectic of Sentiment and Truth of Feeling
  10. 6. Feeling as Illusion: Rousseau to Proust
  11. 7. Modernism and the Attack on Sentiment
  12. 8. Henry James and D. H. Lawrence: ‘Felt Life' and Truth to Feeling
  13. Conclusion: Literature,Criticism and the Culture of Feeling
  14. Notes
  15. Select Bibliography
  16. Index