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1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020). |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Emotions in literature.
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Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
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Prose anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Siècle des Lumières -- Grande-Bretagne.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Emotions in literature
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English prose literature
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Enlightenment
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Great Britain
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Indexed Term |
affect, British, Enlightenment, Hume, insensibly. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Noggle, James. Unfelt. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 1501747126 (DLC) 2019017311 |
| ISBN |
1501747142 (electronic publication/mobi) |
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9781501747144 (electronic publication/mobi) |
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1501747134 (electronic book) |
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9781501747137 (electronic book) |
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1501747126 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000065766391 |
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AU@ 000067006672 |
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