James Noggle

Unfelt

The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

"Offers a new account of feeling in British Enlightenment literature, showing how writers discreetly evoke a hidden layer of affect that supports and intensifies our strongly felt passions and sentiments"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781501770128
• ISBN-10: 1501770128
• Artikelnr.: 68713403

Autorenporträt

James Noggle

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Unfelt Affect
1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness
1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay
1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter
1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume
1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith
2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement
2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility
2.2. External and Invisible
2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney
2.4. Austen as Coda
3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions
3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography
3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography
3.3. Gibbon in History
3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling
4. Political Economy: Moving with Money
4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness
4.2. Feeling Untaxed
4.3. The Money Flow
4.4. Invisible versus Insensible
Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology