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The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination : Transformations of Sympathy in British Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction / Roman Alexander Barton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformationen der Antike ; 61Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (X, 210 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110624014
  • 9783110624182
  • 9783110625318
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/353
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SYMPATHY RENDERED MORAL -- 3. SYSTEMS OF SYMPATHY -- 4. FROM ETHICS TO POETICS OF SYMPATHY -- 5. NARRATING SYMPATHY & SYMPATHETIC NARRATION -- 6. SYMPATHY LOST AND REGAINED -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2018. Summary: How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.
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Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2018.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SYMPATHY RENDERED MORAL -- 3. SYSTEMS OF SYMPATHY -- 4. FROM ETHICS TO POETICS OF SYMPATHY -- 5. NARRATING SYMPATHY & SYMPATHETIC NARRATION -- 6. SYMPATHY LOST AND REGAINED -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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