Strange Fits of Passion Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen

Name: Strange Fits of Passion Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen
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ISBN: 9780804736565

ISBN-10: 0804736561

ISBN-13: 9780804736565

Edition: 1996

Authors: Adela Pinch

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Strange Fits of Passion explores emotion and the representation of feeling in late 18th century and early 19th century literature.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Introduction: Emotional Extravagance and the Epistemology of Feeling



The Philosopher as Man of Feeling: Hume's Book of the Passions



Sentimentality and Experience in Charlotte Smith's Sonnets



Female Chatter: Gender and Feeling in Wordsworth's Early Poetry



Phantom Feelings: Emotional Occupation in The Mysteries of Udolpho



Lost in a Book: Jane Austen's Persuasion


Coda: Quotation and the Circulation of Feeling in Early Nineteenth-Century England


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