Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / James Noggle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501747137
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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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher
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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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"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"-- Provided by publisher

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