03116nam 22004935 450 991081725180332120220407040907.01-5036-0747-X10.1515/9781503607477(CKB)4100000007105327(MiAaPQ)EBC5568232(DE-B1597)564785(DE-B1597)9781503607477(OCoLC)1178769698(Au-PeEL)EBL5568232(OCoLC)1061099654(EXLCZ)99410000000710532720200723d2019 fy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFailures of Feeling Insensibility and the Novel /Wendy Anne LeeStanford, CA :Stanford University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (237 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --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 --IndexThis book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion.English fictionHistory and criticismEmotions in literatureFictionPsychological aspectsEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Emotions in literature.FictionPsychological aspects.823.009/353Lee Wendy Anne1976-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1636215DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817251803321Failures of Feeling3977375UNINA