Explores the history, religion, art, and politics behind the history of sincerity, spanning a timeline dotted with Protestant theology, paintings by the insane,

“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with

The essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and discipline

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