{"product_id":"failures-of-feeling-1","title":"Failures of Feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book recovers the curious history of the \"insensible\" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, \u003ci\u003eFailures of Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who \u003ci\u003ewould prefer not to\u003c\/i\u003e and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245006868824,"sku":"9781503615014","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781503615014_30de7541-d283-44a4-a95e-67b4ae6fed95.jpg?v=1778594440","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/failures-of-feeling-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}