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This work defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the 18th-century cult of sentiment, despite its some... » 

This work defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the 18th-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. «