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Failures of Feeling : Insensibility and the Novel.

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Wendy Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.