The Surprising Effects of Sympathy
Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9293237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Lichtenstein, David Marshall (0000-0002-5256-0312) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1182-1182 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2905217 |
| OpenAlex | W225247819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
Through readings of works by Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, David Marshall provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century preoccupation with theatricality and sympathy. is seen not as an instance of sensibility or natural benevolence but rather as an aesthetic and epistemological problem that must be understood in relation to the problem of theatricality. Placing novels in the context of eighteenth-century writing about theater, fiction, and painting, Marshall argues that an unusual variety of authors and texts were concerned with the possibility of entering into someone else's thoughts and feelings. He shows how key eighteenth-century works reflect on the problem of how to move, touch, and secure the sympathy of readers and beholders in the realm of both art and life. Marshall discusses the demands placed upon novels to achieve certain the ambivalence of writers and readers about those effects, and the ways in which these texts can be read as philosophical meditations on the differences and analogies between the experiences of reading a novel, watching a play, beholding a painting, and witnessing the spectacle of someone suffering. The Surprising Effects of Sympathy traces the interaction of sympathy and theater and the artistic and philosophical problems that these terms represent in dialogues about aesthetics, moral philosophy, epistemology, psychology, autobiography, the novel, and society
Art · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sympathy · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Social Psychology
Theorizing Theater Antitheatrically
Sympathy in Mind (1876-1900)
Introduction
The Shipping Intelligence
The Personal Advertisements
The Leading Article
Self-Interest before Adam Smith
Dangerous Liaisons 2
Cultivating Sympathy
Sade eudémoniste
Anatomy of tragedy
Empathy in Translation
Regulating Agents, Functional Interactions, and Stimulus-Reaction-Schemes
Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
Forgetting Lot's Wife
Victor’s Progeny
Sympathetic Distance and Victorian Form
The Spectacle of the Scaffolding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the physiognomy of the modern city
Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed”
You must create a female”
Indelible impressions”
Sympathy between disciplines
Male bonding
The Nature of Domestic Intimacy and Sibling Incest inDiderot's Fils Naturel
Giving Isabel an “ado” (adieu)
Staging Emile
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2020 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |