Antipathy.
In the nineteenth century, a new term emerged for moral disgust, which then, as now, sat uneasily within physiologically and socially based models of emotions. The history of "antipathy"—antagonist of that politically and aesthetically important emotion, sympathy—reveals tensions in liberal society...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 579 - 586 |
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Indiana University Press
Summer2022
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