Romantic intimacy / Nancy Yousef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yousef, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature--Psychological aspects.

Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of shared feeling as imagined in 18th century ethics, romantic literature, and 20th century psychoanalysis. The term 'intimacy' captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience, and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. Original interpretations of Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Austen show how aspirations toward mutual recognition give way to appreciation of varied, non-reciprocal forms of intimacy.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Ethics, Literature, and the Forms of Encounter

1. Feeling for philosophy

2. Knowing before loving

3. Sentimental justice

4. Respecting emotion

5. Alone together

Coda. Sitting with Strangers

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804788274

0804788278

OCLC:

857061673