Abstract
The “Culture of Sensibility” has been an outstanding term for some critics in order to name a period between the Augustan Age and the Romantic movement. The sensibility was linked to a sense of sympathy produced by the suffering of another person. Its highest expression was the “Sentimental Novel” by Richardson and Sterne. David Hume, with a moral philosophy based on the concepts of sympathy and benevolence, has been considered to be one of the makers of this Culture of Sensibility. Nevertheless, he expressed some criticism about the emerging genre of the novel to which he accused of an artificial and excessive affectation. In this paper I am trying to analyze the role that Hume had at the Age of Sensibility.
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