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What literature teaches us about emotion
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Patrick Colm Hogan |
"Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our compr… |
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Poets of sensibility and the sublime
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Harold Bloom |
A collection of critical essays on English poetry during the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime, the half-century between the death of Alexander Pope in 1744 and the death of Robert Burns in 1796. |
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Passion and virtue
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David Blewett |
"Human passion was Samuel Richardson's great theme. His novels reveal the conflict of human passion in all its aspects - love, lust, and suffering - and the attempt to achieve a virtuous existence. I… |
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Courtesy Lost
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Kristina Marie Olson |
x, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
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L'emportement
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Pierre Ouellet |
369 p. ; 21 cm |
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Erôs and the Polis
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Ed Sanders |
Arising out of a conference on ‘Erôs in Ancient Greece’, the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Arc… |
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Statistical panic
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Kathleen M. Woodward |
"In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of … |
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1870
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Joseph Fichtelberg |
"A crucial addition to American literary criticism on sentimental literature, Critical Fictions is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between commercial and sentimental discourses in early Am… |
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Sympathy in American literature
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Kristin Boudreau |
"In this chronicle of the role of sympathy in American literature and culture from the colonial period to the Gilded Age, Boudreau shows how the sentiment of fellow-feeling was repeatedly recruited a… |
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