Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

by John Jervis

Book Overview

Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent.

These tensions are traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive 'spectacle of sympathy', in which sympathy entails public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472576373
• ISBN13: 9781472576378
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"