Enlightened sentiments : judgment and autonomy in the age of sensibility / Hina Nazar

Nazar, Hina

Published by New York: Fordham University Press, 2012

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; viii, 182 p.; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction -- Reconstructing sentimentalism -- Sentimentalism and the discourses of freedom: the aesthetic analogy from Hume to Arendt -- Judging Clarissa's heart -- A sentimental education: Rousseau to Godwin -- Judgment, propriety, and the critique of sensibility: the "sentimental" Jane Austen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-175) and index. Summary; Enlightened Sentiments reassesses the enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism." Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly affective culture of sensibility elides its critical motif of moral and aesthetic judgment and underrates its contributions to the key Enlightenment norm of autonomy. Drawing upon novelists from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen, and theorists of judgment from David Hume to Hannah Arendt, the author contends that sentimental judgment complicates received understandings of liberal ethics as grounded in the opposition of reason and feeling, and autonomy and sociability and, as such, implies a powerful counter-challenge to postmodernist critiques of modernity as the harbinger principally of instrumentalist reason and disciplinary power. Subjects; Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761. - Clarissa. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778. - Nouvelle Héloïse. Austen, Jane 1775-1817. - Sense and sensibility. English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism. French fiction - 18th century - History and criticism. Sentimentalism in literature. Judgment (Ethics) - History - 18th century. Autonomy (Philosophy) - History - 18th century. Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century. Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 236431

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Title: Enlightened sentiments : judgment and ...

Publisher: New York: Fordham University Press

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st edition.