Failures of Feeling
This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel''s uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century stud...
This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel''s uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century stud...
