Sympathetic Sentiments - Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

This 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.>

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• Authors: Dr John Jervis, John Jervis, Jervis John
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9781472576378
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7637-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: The Wish List; The Wish List; Criminal Practice Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Politikwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Cultural Studies, Fernsehen, TV, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Political science & theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism