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Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason—rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990's Decade of the Brain have proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we’ve repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we’ve thought feeling through stories about the lives of imaginary persons. We need these stories in order to practice emotions for when we return to the world from reading. Donald Wesling argues that to be more accurate in our dealings with stories, we require a grammar of this new recognition, where we build up traditional stylistics by a more careful tracking of emotion-states as these are set into writing. The first half of Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons offers a creative stock-taking of the current state of scholarship on emotion, based on wide reading in several fields. The second half gives three focused studies, rich in examples, of emotion as cognition, as story, and as historical structure of feeling.

Emotions in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Senses and sensation in literature.

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"This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it, in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with some scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore in the broader social context - specifically in the display of repentant prostitutes and the children of the vagrant and criminal poor and in certain scientific experiments - the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation. Showing that when sensibility becomes central to an understanding of psychology, it becomes the basis for an experimental approach to character, she argues that Samuel Richardson's method of revealing his heroine's heart in Clarissa is analogous to the enterprise of scientists creating and observing suffering in order to study interior physiological functions." "The book goes on to explore sensibility's location of psychological response in physical structures. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the "man of feeling," a spectator who reports on "touching" experiences. Focusing principally on Laurence Stern's A Sentimental Journey, she argues that the man of feeling's experience is located in the body - by definition both feminized and physiological, and therefore inherently parodic." "In a further note on readers of sensibility, she examines the relation between focusing on a physiologically defined moment and the fragmented, intensified episodes of the sentimental narrative."--Jacket.

Emoties. --- Emotions in literature. --- Empfindsamkeit. --- Engels. --- Englisch. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Geschichte (1700-1800). --- Geschichte (1730-1790). --- Leid --- Literature and science --- Literature and science. --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Littérature et sciences --- Littérature et société --- Maatschappij. --- Roman anglais --- Roman. --- Romans. --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature. --- Sensation --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- Sentimentalisme dans la littérature. --- Émotions dans la littérature. --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- In literature. --- 1700-1799. --- Great Britain. --- Gro�britannien.

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Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Ger

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Emotions in literature. --- Literature. --- Virtue epistemology. --- Virtues in literature. --- Literature - General --- Speculative Philosophy --- Languages & Literatures --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literature --- Philosophy. --- Epistemic virtue --- Epistemology, Virtue --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Theory --- Linguistics. --- Ethics. --- Metaphysics. --- Phenomenology. --- Philology. --- Language and Literature. --- History of Philosophy. --- Philosophy, Modern --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Phenomenology . --- Philosophy (General). --- Stylistics. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Style. --- History. --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style