Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling
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Author | : Michael Bell |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2000-09-25 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105025089058 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling by : Michael Bell
Book excerpt: 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.