Failures of Feeling
Failures of Feeling This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions,…
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Failures of Feeling
This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative.
Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights.