Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel

By Wendy Anne Lee

Book Overview

This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Enlightenment philosophy and fiction to the history of emotions, and reframing our contemporary theories of mind and of the novel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503606805
• ISBN13: 9781503606807
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"