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Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment /

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"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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Main Author: Noggle, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Enlightenment.
English prose literature.
Emotions in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Siecle des Lumieres > Grande-Bretagne.
Prose anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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