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The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination - Transformations of Sympathy in British Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination - Transformations of Sympathy in British Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Transformationen der Antike
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How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or
disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment
thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as
well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the
notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic
criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study
traces the emergence of what became a key concept of
intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions,
Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the
imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which
sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of
ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the
sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional
reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result,
the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy.
Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the
novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book
demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the
sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its
literary and moral potential.
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