Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

Noggle, James

Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

dc.contributor.author	Noggle, James
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-20T14:11:22Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-20T14:11:22Z
dc.date.issued	2020-03-15
dc.description.abstract	Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period's understanding of sensibility. Each of the four sections of Unfelt—on philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economy—charts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle's exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the period's writing and thought. Drawing inspiration from contemporary affect theory, Noggle charts how feeling and unfeeling flow and feed back into each other, identifying emotional dynamics at their most elusive and powerful: the potential, the incipient, the emergent, the virtual.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/9y99-0f50
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501747120 (print hardcover)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501770128 (print paperback)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501747144 (epub)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501747137 (PDF ebook)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113099
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Cornell University Press	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Georgian Era	en_US
dc.subject	English Literary Criticism	en_US
dc.subject	Sensibility & Insensibility	en_US
dc.subject	Contemporary Affect Theory	en_US
dc.subject	Western Philosophy	en_US
dc.title	Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment	en_US
dc.type	book	en_US
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