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1 online resource |
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Introduction: feeling Romanticism / Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha -- The motion behind Romantic emotion : towards a chemistry and physics of feeling / Richard C. Sha -- 'A certain mediocrity' : Adam Smith's moral behaviourism / Thomas Pfau -- Like love : the feel of Shelley's similes / Julie Carlson -- Jane Austen and the persuasion of happiness / Joel Faflak -- The general fast and humiliation : tracking feeling in wartime / Mary A. Favret -- A peculiar community : Mary Shelley, Godwin, and the abyss of emotion / Tilottama Rajan -- Emotion without content : primary affect and pure potentiality in Wordsworth / David Collings -- Kant's peace, Wordsworth's slumber / Jacques Khalip -- Living a ruined life : De Quincey's damage / Rei Terada |
| Summary |
"There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Great Britain
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Emotions in literature.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Emotions in literature
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English literature
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Romanticism
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Faflak, Joel, editor.
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Sha, Richard C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781139871198 |
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1139871196 |
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9781107280564 |
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1107280567 |
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