Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

1. Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins

1. Introduction: Sensibility from the Margins
Ildiko Csengei

Part I. Philosophies and Physiologies of Feeling

2. Philosophies of Sympathy
Ildiko Csengei

3. The Feeling Machine
Ildiko Csengei

Part II. The Literature of Sensibility

4. ‘I Will Not Weep’: Tears of Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling

Ildiko Csengei

5. Women and the Negative: The Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Ildiko Csengei

6. Godwin’s Case: Melancholy Mourning in the ‘Empire of Feeling’
Ildiko Csengei

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory