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dc.contributor.authorJervis, John
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:53:40Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:53:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781472535627_111
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58780
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe WISH List
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aestheticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical science and theory
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy: aesthetics
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.titleSympathetic Sentiments
dc.title.alternativeAffect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781472593030
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781472535627
oapen.relation.isbn9781472535610
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages256
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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