MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2013031191
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008 130916s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013031191
020 $a9781107052390 (Hardback)
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050 00 $aPR448.E46$bR66 2014
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084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
245 00 $aRomanticism and the emotions /$cedited by Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $ax, 264 p. ;$c24 cm
520 $a"There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-258) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aEmotions in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aFaflak, Joel,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aSha, Richard C.,$eeditor of compilation.