Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen

by Adela Pinch

Book Overview

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period's obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804736561
• ISBN13: 9780804736565
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"