Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling

• Author(s): M. Bell,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 230
• ISBN_10: 0230595502
  ISBN_13: 9780230595507
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. The very reaction against sentimentalism has taught us to identity sentimentality. Fiction, moreover, remains a principal means not just of discriminating quality of feeling but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature.