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Umfang: 236 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781503606807

Inhalt: Introduction : the Bartleby problem -- A brief history of the prude -- Clarissa's marble heart -- The man of no feeling -- Sense, insensibility, sympathy -- Conclusion : death wish for the novel

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781503607477

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Englisch ; Roman ; Gefühlsstörung ; Geschichte 1740-1900

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Umfang: 1 online resource (237 pages)

ISBN: 1-5036-0747-X

Inhalt: This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , 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 , Issued also in print. , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781503607477

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Umfang: 1 online resource (250 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781503607477

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Lee, Wendy Anne Failures of Feeling Redwood City : Stanford University Press,c2018 ISBN 9781503606807

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

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