Taxonomies of Feeling
The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3025385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyla Schuller (Gender Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-299 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2012.0023 |
| OpenAlex | W2050921637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
Despite scholarly assumptions that the scientific is opposed to the sentimental, sentimentalism shaped racial and sexual science. I argue that the once-prominent American School of Evolution translated the sensationist epistemology, in which all knowledge derives from the senses, into an explanation of species and race formation. In this view, species originated in sense-based experience and civilization originated in sentiment, granting individuals and especially the civilized control over their own evolution. As sensibility and sentiment denoted a susceptibility to both progress and degeneration, I show how these scientists' concept of sex differentiation attempted to work out some of the contradictions of the sentimental body. Overall, the essay suggests how the discourse of feeling shaped the modern logic of biological difference
Aesthetics · Art · Civilization · Epistemology · Feeling · Industrial civilization · Literature · Political science · Race (biology · Sensibility · Sociology · American History and Culture · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Sensibility
Race, culture, and evolution
Arranging grief
Cultural Locations of Disability
The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution
Outcasts from Evolution
States of Sympathy
The Theory of Evolution and Social Progress
Sympathy in Mind (1876-1900)
No Cold or Empty Heart
Male Pleasure and the Genders of Eighteenth-Century Botanic Exchange
Edward Drinker Cope and the Changing Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Textbooks and Texts from the Brooks
The Race of Hysteria
Outcasts from Evolution
Theories of Perception and the Physiology of Mind in the Late Eighteenth Century
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |