Dr Ildiko Csengei, Newnham
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave, 2011)
Biographical Information:
Research Interests:
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, the culture of sensibility and sentimentalism, Romanticism and War, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eighteenth-century moral philosophy, medicine and science in the long eighteenth century, the history of sympathy, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalytic approaches to literature
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
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Selected Publications
- Ildiko Csengei, Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Ildiko Csengei, "Godwin's Case: Melancholy Mourning in the Empire of Feeling", Studies in Romanticism 48.3, 2009, 491-519
- Ildiko Csengei, "'I Will Not Weep': Reading through the Tears of Henry Mackenzie's 'Man of Feeling'", Modern Language Review 103.4, 2008, 952-68
- Ildiko Csengei, "She Fell Senseless on His Corpse: The Woman of Feeling and the Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.", Romantic Circles Praxis Series: Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis, Ed. Joel Faflak, 2008
- Ildiko Csengei, "Sensibility in Dissection: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Eighteenth-Century Body in Pain", Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 9.2, 2003, 148-73
- Ildiko Csengei, "The Unreadability of the Bildungsroman. Reading Jane Eyre Reading", The Anachronist, 2000, 102-38