LEADER 03116nam 22004935 450 001 9910817251803321 005 20220407040907.0 010 $a1-5036-0747-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503607477 035 $a(CKB)4100000007105327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568232 035 $a(DE-B1597)564785 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503607477 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5568232 035 $a(OCoLC)1061099654 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007105327 100 $a20200723d2019 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFailures of Feeling $eInsensibility and the Novel /$fWendy Anne Lee 210 1$aStanford, CA :$cStanford University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (237 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Bartleby Problem --$t1. A Brief History of the Prude --$t2. Clarissa?s Marble Heart --$t3. The Man of No Feeling --$t4. Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy --$tConclusion: Death Wish for the Novel --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Citations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmotions in literature 606 $aFiction$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a823.009/353 700 $aLee$b Wendy Anne$f1976-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01636215 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817251803321 996 $aFailures of Feeling$93977375 997 $aUNINA