Romanticism and the Emotions, Paperback / softback Book

Romanticism and the Emotions Paperback / softback

Edited by Joel (University of Western Ontario) Faflak, Richard C. (American University, Washington DC) Sha

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There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought.

This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning.

Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience.

Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.

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