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Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture

Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Challenge of the Passions to Eighteenth-Century Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

      • Heather Kerr, David Lemmings, Robert Phiddian
      Pages 3-19
    3. Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups

      • W. Gerrod Parrott
      Pages 20-44
  3. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 266-290

About this book

This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Adelaide, Australia

    Heather Kerr, David Lemmings

  • Flinders University, Australia

    Robert Phiddian

About the editors

David Lemmings is Professor of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Leader of the Change Program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. He has published widely on the history of crime, law and media in eighteenth-century Britain.

Heather Kerr is Senior Lecturer in the discipline of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and an Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions. She has published in the areas of early modern drama and poetry, law and literature, ecocriticism and contemporary cultural studies.

Robert Phiddian is Associate Professor of English and Deputy Dean of the School of Humanities at Flinders University, Australia. He is author of Swift's Parody (1995) and thirty other publications, principally on eighteenth-century literature and contemporary Australian political cartooning.

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