Mary Peace

Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital (eBook, ePUB)

Luxury, Virtue and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sentimentalism became popular in the eighteenth century, part of the philosophical idea that truth is founded on emotion or moral sentiment. Peace uses the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes as a prism through which to explore the sentimental writing of this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315308333
• Artikelnr.: 47381644

Autorenporträt

Mary Peace is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She has published widely on sentimental discourse, sexuality, economics and religion in eighteenth-century culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Radical Heart of Sentimentality: An Intervention into the Existing
Critical Debate 2. Sentiment and Classical Republicanism 3. Richardson and
the Problem of Sentimental Exceptionality 4. Sentiment and Taste 5.
Sentiment and Religion: The Magdalen Hospital 6. 1770s and 1780s: Smith,
Sentiment and Libertinism 7. The 1790s