TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faflak,Joel
AU  - Sha,Richard C.
TI  - Romanticism and the Emotions
SN  - 9781107280564 (ebook)
AV  - PR448.E46 R66 2014
U1  - 820.9/353 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Emotions in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280564
ER  -