Unfelt

The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvJames Noggle

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Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period's understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelt—on philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economy—charts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle's exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the period's writing and thought.Drawing inspiration from contemporary affect theory, Noggle charts how feeling and unfeeling flow and feed back into each other, identifying emotional dynamics at their most elusive and powerful: the potential, the incipient, the emergent, the virtual.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9781501747120

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Introduction: Unfelt Affect1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility2.2. External and Invisible2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney2.4. Austen as Coda3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography3.3. Gibbon in History3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling4. Political Economy: Moving with Money4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness4.2. Feeling Untaxed4.3. The Money Flow4.4. Invisible versus InsensibleEpilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology

Noggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such.(Eighteenth-Century Fiction) James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book.(Modern Language Quarterly) Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory.(Eighteenth-Century Studies)