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Romanticism and the Emotions / edited by Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha

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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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1 online resource
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Faflak, Joel and Sha, Richard C.
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Contents
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"--
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9781139871198 (electronic bk.)
1139871196 (electronic bk.)
9781107280564 (electronic bk.)
1107280567 (electronic bk.)
9781107052390
1107052394
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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