Description: This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century, showing how liberals were deeply concerned with the nature, function, and effects of the emotions and how links between reason, disinterestedness and the positive role of the emotions became a hallmark of liberal writing.
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'This volume shines a revealing light on the emotional dimension of nineteenth-century liberalism, bringing to life its deeply human core'
Alexandre Lefebvre, author of Liberalism as a Way of Life