Unfelt the language of affect in the British Enlightenment
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York
Cornell University Press
2020, 2020©2020
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction : unfelt affect
- The insensible parts of Locke's essay
- David Hartley's ghost matter
- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume
- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith
- Unfeeling before sensibility
- External and invisible
- Insensible against involuntary in Burney
- Austen as coda
- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography
- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography
- Gibbon in history
- The embrace of unfeeling
- Mandeville and the other happiness
- Feeling untaxed
- The money flow
- Invisible versus insensible
- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology