Romanticism and the emotions / edited by Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha.
"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 know...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: feeling Romanticism Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha; 1. The motion behind Romantic emotion: towards a chemistry and physics of feeling Richard C. Sha; 2. 'A certain mediocrity': Adam Smith's moral behaviourism Thomas Pfau; 3. Like love: the feel of Shelley's similes Julie Carlson; 4. Jane Austen and the persuasion of happiness Joel Faflak; 5. The general fast and humiliation: tracking feeling in wartime Mary A. Favret; 6. A peculiar community: Mary Shelley, Godwin, and the abyss of emotion Tilottama Rajan; 7. Emotion without content: primary affect and pure potentiality in Wordsworth David Collings; 8. Kant's peace, Wordsworth's slumber Jacques Khalip; 9. Living a ruined life: De Quincey's damage Rei Terada.