Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen by Adela Pinch

Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen

Adela Pinch

264 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing f...

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