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

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 prom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Transformationen der Antike , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 210 p.)
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