Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature by Fred Kaplan
By Fred Kaplan
What is sentimentality, and the place did it come from? For acclaimed student and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds have been planted by means of the British ethical philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians received from them a conception of human nature, a trust within the innateness of benevolent ethical instincts; sentiment, in flip, emerged as a collection of shared ethical emotions against either medical realism and the extra ego-driven energies of Romanticism. Sacred Tears investigates the profound ways that seminal writers Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Thomas Carlyle have been motivated by means of the philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith, and by means of novelists of an identical interval. Exploring sentiment in its unique context—one usually forgotten or overlooked—Kaplan’s examine is a stimulating fusion of highbrow heritage and literary feedback, and holds no small value for questions of paintings and morality as they exist today.
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