Failures Of Feeling: Insensibility And The Novel

This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Enlightenment philosophy and fiction to the history of emotions, and reframing our contemporary theories of mind and of the novel.

• | Author: Wendy Anne Lee
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1503606805
• | ISBN-13: 9781503606807