Overview
- Helps to define the affective vocabulary of the eighteenth-century
- Brings marginalized works, especially by women writers, alongside canonical texts
- Suggests a line of continuity between eighteenth-century ideas about affection and the much-used concept of “affect”
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism (PSATLC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Louise Joy is Fellow, Director of Studies in English, and Vice-Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (2019) and has published widely on eighteenth-century literature and the history and philosophy of education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
Authors: Louise Joy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46008-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46007-5Published: 30 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46010-5Published: 31 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46008-2Published: 29 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6311
Series E-ISSN: 2634-632X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 215
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Cultural History, Cultural Studies