The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C.1790–C.1920

Jock Macleod is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith UniversityWilliam Christie is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Australian National UniversityPeter Denney is Associate Professor of History at Griffith University

• Introduction: Liberalism and the Emotions in the Long Nineteenth Century – Jock Macleod, William Christie, and Peter DenneyTheoretical Perspectives 1 Between science and social philosophy: emotion in liberal discourse at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries – Michael Freeden2 Liberalism, emotion, and temporality in Mill and Bain – Jock Macleod3 Victorian ‘artificial intelligence’: or what George Eliot teaches us about statistical modelling – Lauren GoodladGender and Empire4 ‘Strange manners’: liberalism and the uses of women – William Christie5 Sentiment, violence, liberalism: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s The Aboriginal Mother (1838) – Anna JohnstonLiberal Lives6 A Byron among the industrialists: W. R. Greg and the structures of feeling of Manchester liberalism – Jon Mee7 Liberal autobiography and the possibility of happiness: Mill, Martineau, and Spencer – Alexis Harley8 A liberal intimacy: Leonard and Kate Courtney in the 1880s – Geoff GinnAesthetics and the Senses9 Listening to liberal religion: sound, feeling, and dissenting attitudes to public worship in the 1790s – Peter Denney10 The ear of the liberal body – Sarah Collins11 Sources of liberalism: the geopolitics of beauty – Regenia Gagnier

'This volume shines a revealing light on the emotional dimension of nineteenth-century liberalism, bringing to life its deeply human core'Alexandre Lefebvre, author of Liberalism as a Way of Life