Frances Greville’s A Prayer for Indifference

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1683
dc.title	Frances Greville’s A Prayer for Indifference. The Limits of Sentiment
dc.contributor.author	Kukkonen Karin
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2018/1/frances-grevilles-a-prayer-for-indifference/
dc.description.abstract	The present article considers Frances Greville’s poem A Prayer for Indifference as the centre of a debate around the nature of the emotions and their social and cultural roles in the eighteenth century. Greville questions the models of the philosophers of sensibility, in particular Francis Hutcheson’s, and, drawing on Shakespeare’s newly prominent status, puts forward literature as an alternative.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 5 \| Dicembre 2018
dc.issued	2018-12-17
dc.dateAccepted	2018-12-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-09-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2018/05/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Frances Greville
dc.subject	Frances Greville
dc.subject	Moral Sense
dc.subject	Moral Sense
dc.subject	Sentiment
dc.subject	Sentiment
dc.subject	Shakespeare
dc.subject	Shakespeare
dc.subject	Stoicism
dc.subject	Stoicism

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Frances Greville’s A Prayer for Indifference

The Limits of Sentiment

Karin Kukkonen University of Oslo

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abstract

The present article considers Frances Greville’s poem A Prayer for Indifference as the centre of a debate around the nature of the emotions and their social and cultural roles in the eighteenth century. Greville questions the models of the philosophers of sensibility, in particular Francis Hutcheson’s, and, drawing on Shakespeare’s newly prominent status, puts forward literature as an alternative.

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17 Dicembre 2018

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01 Dicembre 2018

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24 Settembre 2018

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Keywords: Stoicism • Shakespeare • Moral Sense • Frances Greville • Sentiment

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