Titlebook: Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century; Ildiko Csengei Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Introduction: Sensibility from the Marginsbenevolent, philanthropist ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility. It undertakes to investigate the darker side of sensibility by focussing on the question of emotional response. In literary and cultural criticism, sensibility denotes a cultural trend of emotional upheaval, a cult of sympathy an

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‘I Will Not Weep’: Tears of Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie’s ,h scenes of weeping, . was immensely popular in its day. Its success in the 1770s was due to its capacity to move and affect deeply, drawing the reader into a culture of tears. As contemporary opinions testify, crying over . was the test of the sensibility of its early readers. By the time of the no

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Women and the Negative: The Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Ophelia at her first ball. When Ophelia finds that Lord Dorchester left a will she understands the seriousness of the situation and falls into fits of fainting from which she barely recovers. A strikingly similar episode takes place in Elizabeth Inchbald’s . (1791). When Miss Milner hears the news

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Godwin’s Case: Melancholy Mourning in the ‘Empire of Feeling’o consequence. It added to the measure of my distraction.’ In his . (1798), this is William Godwin’s description of his feelings shortly after questioning the nurse just coming out of the room where his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, lies dying. To Godwin’s question, what she thought of her mistress, th

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