Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections

by Joy, Louise

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Title Statements

Full title :Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections / by Louise Joy.

Summary

This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic. .

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (VIII, 215 p. :) : online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030460082, 3030460088, 9783030460075, 303046007X
oclc:on1203978475
LC Classification:PN750-759
Dewey Decimal:809.033

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Affective Knowledge -- 2. Chapter 2: Model Affections -- 3. Chapter 3: Literary Passions -- 4. Chapter 4: Novel Feelings -- 5. Chapter 5: Translated Emotions -- 6. Chapter 6: Poetic Pathos -- 7. Chapter 7: Epilogue: Literary Affections. .

Subjects

Civilisation -- Histoire Civilization Civilization -- History Criticism, interpretation, etc cultural history Cultural studies Eighteenth-Century Literature History literary history Literary theory Literature Literature -- History And Criticism Literature -- Philosophy Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- 18th century Literature, Modern -- 19th century Littérature -- 18e siècle Littérature -- 19e siècle Littérature -- Histoire et critique Nineteenth-Century Literature