Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism) ISBN-13: 9783030460075
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism) ISBN-13: 9783030460075 | 9783030460075, Book, Joy, Louise, Springer | ISBN-10: 303046007X
ISBN-13: 9783030460075
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Joy, Louise
Details: 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.
Release Date: 30-07-2020
Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Languages: English
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Number Of Pages: 223
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