By Fred Kaplan
ISBN-10: 1480409812
ISBN-13: 9781480409811
An soaking up research of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian existence and literatureWhat is sentimentality, and the place did it come from? For acclaimed pupil and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds have been planted via the British ethical philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians won from them a conception of human nature, a trust within the innateness of benevolent ethical instincts; sentiment, in flip, emerged as a suite of shared ethical emotions towards either clinical realism and the extra ego-driven energies of Romanticism. Sacred Tears investigates the profound ways that seminal writers Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Thomas Carlyle have been motivated by way of the philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith, and by way of novelists of a similar interval. Exploring sentiment in its unique context—one usually forgotten or overlooked—Kaplan's learn is a stimulating fusion of highbrow background and literary feedback, and holds no small value for questions of paintings and morality as they exist this day.
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And at that time the pale, worn, patient face was seen looking up at the sky, with the broken right hand lying bare on the outside of the covering garments, as if waiting to be taken by another hand. They gave him drink, moistened his face with water, and administered some drops of cordials and wine. ’’ (Hard Times, p. 206) Benjamin similarly locates his isolated novel reader ‘‘under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds’’ (Benjamin, ‘‘The Storyteller,’’ p.
Yet the definition of literacy was simultaneously restrictive enough that many or most working-class English people would never be able to count as fully literate: to speak with a regional accent, for example, or to use one’s education for radical ends, potentially labeled one as illiterate. The figure of the speaking worker marked, then, a point where two competing or contradictory concepts of literacy collided. An illiterate worker’s speech offered the promise of future education, the possibility of improvement, and even the liberal utopia of a fully educated, middle-class England.
In a manner that has since become familiar, Carlyle’s valorization of a hitherto occulted and suppressed speech permits a fantasy of a sovereign language that must be obeyed: ‘‘The world has to obey him who thinks and sees in the world . . It, the new Truth, new deeper revealing of the Secret of this Universe, is verily of the nature of a message from on high; and must and will have itself obeyed’’ (On Heroes, pp. 165–6). Such sovereign language heals the community, induces unanimity, and restores the damaged individual body to wholeness.
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