The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination Transformations of Sympathy in British Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction

How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prom...

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