Sympathetic Sentiments

Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

AvJohn Jervis,Jonathan Bate

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.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 forms of expression whereby being on show is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated. This, John Jervis suggests, is at the root of a range of controversies central to modern life, art and culture, including contemporary debates around trauma and compassion fatigue. Connected to these debates is the issue of modern sensationalism, discussed here and elaborated in a companion volume: Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World, which is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-01-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:451 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:WISH List
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472535603

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John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000) and the co-editor of Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties (2008).

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This book is a timely addition to the sometimes bewilderingly broad field of scholarship on sentiment and sympathy. It is a lively and richly illustrated discussion of the ways in which humans feel, think, recall, and imagine others. It patiently guides the reader through the complex historical transformations and surprising conceptual continuities that characterize the ways in which these abilities – and their translation into ethical actions – have been theorized from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsGuest Preface1. Introduction2. Cloying Sentiments3. Sensibility and Sympathy in the Theatre of Tears4. Sympathy Theory5. From Sensibility to Affect?6. Unconscious Arts of Memory7. Trauma Trouble8. Sympathy, Sentiment and Media SpectaclePostscript: Empathy, Spectacle and Mirror-Touch SynaesthesiaNotesIndex