Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / / James Noggle.

"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"--

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2020.
Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2020
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of 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.