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Social minds in Romanticism
Author(s) -
Savarese John
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12378
Subject(s) - romanticism , empiricism , romance , sensibility , scholarship , psychology , aesthetics , affect (linguistics) , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , literature , philosophy , art , political science , communication , law
This essay examines how recoveries of Romantic sociability have led to a renewed focus on the social mind, a subject of intense interest in Romantic‐era politics and science. The essay first traces the shift from Romantic scholarship's recovery of “the social” to more recent approaches to social networks. The second section examines how studies of sensibility and affect have enabled new work on Romantic empiricism. The final section points to some recent work that reframes Romantic empiricism, and the very question of the social encounter, in ways that suggest future directions for philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic approaches to the social mind.