Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture
Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Editors: Kerr, Heather, Lemmings, David, Phiddian, Robert (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
Pages 3-19
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Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups
Pages 20-44
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The Emotional Contents of Swift’s saeva indignatio
Pages 47-67
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‘Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the Like’: Daniel Defoe’s Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print
Pages 68-85
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Eliza Haywood’s Progress through the Passions
Pages 86-104
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture
- Book Subtitle
- Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Editors
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- Heather Kerr
- David Lemmings
- Robert Phiddian
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-45541-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137455413
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-45540-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 290
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