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This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own.
It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period's obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience.
Making its argument through a provocative conjunction of texts that range across genres and genders and across the divide between the eighteenth century and romanticism, Strange Fits of Passion rediscovers the relationship of empiricism to the culture of sentimentality, and the significance of emotion to romanticism.
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Emotions (Philosophy), Emotions in literature, English literature, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Literature, Poetic works, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Literature, Psychology, Hume, david, 1711-1776, Radcliffe, ann ward, 1764-1823, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Sonnets, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Austen, jane, 1775-1817, Love in literature, Philosophy of passions, Knowledge and learningPeople
Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823), Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), David Hume (1711-1776), Jane Austen (1775-1817), William Wordsworth (1770-1850)Times
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Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen
March 1, 1999, Stanford University Press
Paperback
in English
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Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen
March 1, 1997, Stanford University Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
0804725489 9780804725484
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Strange fits of passion: epistemologies of emotion, Hume to Austen
1996, Stanford University Press
in English
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"The fate of "individual feeling" is an instructive issue on which to examine accounts of the relationship between eighteenth-century empiricism and romantic aesthetics."
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