What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts. | Sympathy Sensibility And The Literature Of Feeling In The Eighteenth Century by I. Csengei, Paperback | Indigo Chapters