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100			_aPinch, Adela
245			_aStrange fits of passion : epistemologies of emotion, hume to austen
260			_bStanford University Press, _c1997 _aStanford :
300			_aviii, 240 p. ; _c22 cm.
365			_b30.00 _c$ _d88.06
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis 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 resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience. The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by studying a series of extravagantly affective scenes in works by Hume, Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen. Making its argument through a provocative conjunction of texts that range across genres and genders and across the divide between the eighteenth century and Romanticism, Strange fits of passion rediscovers the relationship of empiricism to the culture of sentimentality, and the significance of emotion to Romanticism.
650			_aCriticism, interpretation
650			_aEnglish literature
650			_aHistory
650			_aEmotions in literature
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