"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 know...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
Ausgabe:	paperback edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Romanticism > Great Britain Emotions in literature English literature > 18th century > History and criticism Gefühl Romantik Englisch Literatur Großbritannien Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"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"..
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	X, 264 Seiten
ISBN:	9781107637283 9781107052390