The Discourse Of Sensibility

Author : Henry Martyn Lloyd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
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Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319027029

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The Discourse of Sensibility by Henry Martyn Lloyd Pdf

This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter into an interdisciplinary space and so to invite the plurality of methodological approaches which this collection exemplifies. The chapters collected here draw together the histories of literature and aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, moral theory, medicine, and cultural history. Together, they contribute to four major themes: First, the collection reconstructs various modes by which the sympathetic subject was construed or scripted, including through the theatre, poetry, literature, and medical and philosophical treaties. It secondly draws out those techniques of affective pedagogy which were implied by the medicalisation of the knowing body, and thirdly highlights the manner in which the body of sensibility was constructed as simultaneously particular and universal. Finally, it illustrates the ‘centrifugal forces’ at play within the discourse, and the anxiety which often accompanied them. At the centre of eighteenth-century thought was a very particular object: the body of sensibility, the Enlightenment’s knowing body. The persona of the knowledge-seeker was constructed by drawing together mind and matter, thought and feeling. And so where the Enlightenment thinker is generally associated with reason, truth-telling, and social and political reform, the Enlightenment is also known for its valorisation of emotion. During the period, intellectual pursuits were envisioned as having a distinctly embodied and emotional aspect. The body of ‘sensibility’ encompassed these apparently disparate strands and was associated with terms including ‘sentimental’, ‘sentiment’, ‘sense’, ‘sensation’, and ‘sympathy’.

Author : Anne C. Vila
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801858097

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Enlightenment and Pathology by Anne C. Vila Pdf

If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.

Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521032210

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The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France by Daniel Brewer Pdf

This study explores the problems faced by writers of the Enlightenment, who attempted to demystify all previous forms of knowledge by applying rationalist critiques that can in turn be applied to examine their own critical work. It focuses on the works of one of the best-known writers of eighteenth-century France, Denis Diderot, analysing his experimentation with presenting critical knowledge. Paying close attention to the formal-poetic nature of Diderot's writing, his 'art', it examines the interplay between critical knowledge and its representation, between epistemology and aesthetics. Professor Brewer shows how Diderot's work in the areas of philosophy, science, the fine arts and literature pushed Enlightenment critique to its limits, and points to its remarkable similarity to aspects of modern critical theory.

Author : Claire Knowles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317057246

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Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 by Claire Knowles Pdf

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that places increased emphasis on the connection between the poet's physical body and her body of work. Knowles shows the poets Susan Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning advancing Smith's poetic strategy as they seek to elicit a powerful sympathetic response from readers by highlighting a connection between their actual suffering and the production of poetry. From this environment, a specific tradition in female poetry arises that is identifiable in the work of twentieth-century writers like Sylvia Plath and continues to pertain today. Alongside this new understanding of poetic tradition, Knowles provides an innovative account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late eighteenth-century mass literary culture and traces a crucial discursive shift that takes place in poetic production during this period. She argues that the movement away from the passionate discourse of sensibility in the late eighteenth century to the more contained rhetoric of sentimentality in the early nineteenth had an enormous effect, not only on female poets but also on British literary culture as a whole.

Author : G. Skinner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230372566

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Sensibility and Economics in the Novel by G. Skinner Pdf

Sensibility and Economics in the Novel argues that the sentimental novel, usually seen as a 'feminine' genre concentrating exclusively on emotional response, is in fact actively involved in contemporary economic and political debates. Spanning the period encompassing the rise, heyday and decline of sentimentalism, the book considers how the trajectory of the movement affected the sentimental novel's use of discourses of economics, sensibility and femininity, and assesses the impact of the pressures of the post-Revolutionary 1790s on these areas.

Author : John Dwyer
Publisher : Edinburgh : J. Donald
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN : UCAL:B4315982

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Virtuous Discourse by John Dwyer Pdf

Author : Markman Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521604273

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The Politics of Sensibility by Markman Ellis Pdf

The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its preference for the private over the public sphere. In The Politics of Sensibility, however, Markman Ellis argues that sentimental fiction also consciously participated in some of the most keenly contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century, including the emergence of anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement for the reformation of prostitutes. By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance.

Author : Sue Chaplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351922609

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Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction by Sue Chaplin Pdf

This work offers, firstly, a fresh historical, philosophical and cultural interpretation of the relation between the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility, the sublime, and the theory and practice of eighteenth-century law. Secondly, the work exposes and explores the influence of this combination of discourses upon the formation of gender identities in this period. The author argues that it is only through a study of the convergence of these key eighteenth-century discourses that changing conceptualisations of femininity can fully be understood. Thirdly, it examines the presence, within eighteenth-century fiction by women, of a new female subject. Novels by women in this period, Chaplin posits, begin to reveal that the female subject position constructed through the discourses of law, sensibility and the sublime gives rise, for women, to a feminine ontological crisis that may be seen to anticipate by two hundred years the trauma of the 'post modern' male subject unable to present a unified subjectivity to himself or to the world. This feminine crisis finds expression within a range of female fiction of the mid-to-late eighteenth century - in Charlotte Lennox's anti-romance satire, Frances Sheridan's 'conduct-book' novels, the Gothic romances of Radcliffe and Eliza Fenwick and the sensationalistic horror fiction of Charlotte Dacre. Concentrating upon these writers, Chaplin argues that their works 'speak of dread' on behalf of women in this period and to varying degrees challenge discourses that construct femininity as a highly unstable, barely tenable subject position. Combining the works of Lyotard and Irigaray to formulate a new feminist reading of the eighteenth-century discourse of the sublime, this study offers fresh insights into the culture and politics of the eighteenth century. It presents highly original readings of well-known and lesser-known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to

Author : Daniel I. O’Neill
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271034867

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The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate by Daniel I. O’Neill Pdf

Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729–1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), and a proper understanding of these two thinkers is therefore important as a framework for political debates today. According to Daniel O’Neill, Burke is misconstrued if viewed as mainly providing a warning about the dangers of attempting to turn utopian visions into political reality, while Wollstonecraft is far more than just a proponent of extending the public sphere rights of man to include women. Rather, at the heart of their differences lies a dispute over democracy as a force tending toward savagery (Burke) or toward civilization (Wollstonecraft). Their debate over the meaning of the French Revolution is the place where these differences are elucidated, but the real key to understanding what this debate is about is its relation to the intellectual tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment, whose language of politics provided the discursive framework within and against which Burke and Wollstonecraft developed their own unique ideas about what was involved in the civilizing process.

Author : R. C. De Prospo
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874132819

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Theism in the Discourse of Jonathan Edwards by R. C. De Prospo Pdf

This book proposes that a new semiotic category called theism can more intelligibly classify the discursive pattern that precedes modern humanism in American literature than such standard historicist categories as Puritanism or Calvinism or medievalism, and that the writings of Jonathan Edwards exemplify this theist discursive pattern.

Author : Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : European literature
ISBN : 041524725X

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Romanticism: Romanticism and the margins by Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532404757

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

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Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0719030722

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Enlightenment Crossings by George Sebastian Rousseau Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460401699

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a witty satire of the sentimental novel, a popular genre in Britain throughout the 1790s and the Regency. When it first appeared in 1811, the words in its title carried significant cultural weight beyond the confines of the novel, and into both popular and learned discourse. Through her dual heroines, Austen addresses, and satirizes, notions of sense and sensibility, and engages with the issues of inheritance, marriage, and love. The story concerns two sisters: the level-headed Elinor and the passionate and impulsive Marianne. When their father dies, his son by a previous marriage assumes possession of the family home. Marianne and Elinor, left to the care of their mercenary brother John and his wife Fanny, must remove to a cottage with their mother. Each sister meets a man in whom she is interested, and as with other Austen novels, requited love does not come easily. This newly annotated edition offers a thorough and perceptive introduction and a wide range of carefully selected contextual materials that further explore the term "sensibility."

Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230359178

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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century by I. Csengei Pdf

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.