Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel : the senses in social context /
"This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it, in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with some scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van San...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Partial contents: Sympathetic visibility: philanthropic objects as instruments of pathos and demonstration
- Gazing on suffering: the provocation of response
- Revelation of the heart through entrapment and trial: Clarissa's story, Lovelace's plot
- The centrality of touch
- Locating experience in the body: microsensation
- Reading to the moment: a note on sensibility and narrative form.
