Failures of Feeling : : Insensibility and the Novel.

• Author: Lee, Wendy Anne.
• Place / Publishing House: Redwood City : : Stanford University Press,, 2018.; Ã2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Bartleby Problem -- 1. A Brief History of the Prude -- 2. Clarissa's Marble Heart -- 3. The Man of No Feeling -- 4. Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy -- CONCLUSION: Death Wish for the Novel -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.