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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kerr, Heather[Herausgeber]
• Lemmings, David[Herausgeber]
• Phiddian, Robert[Herausgeber]

Titel

Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture : Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2016

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Part I: The Challenge of the Passions to Eighteenth-Century Studies; 1 Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture; 2 Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups; Part II: Sympathy, Improvement, and the Formation of Virtual Communities; 3 The Emotional Contents of Swift's saeva indignatio; 4 'Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the Like': Daniel Defoe's Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print; 5 Eliza Haywood's Progress through the Passions; 6 That 'Tremendous' Mr Dennis: The Sublime, Common Sense, and Criticism
• 7 Adam Smith and the Theatre in Moral SentimentsPart III: Performing the Self: Communicating Feelings and Identifying Authentic Humanity; 8 'Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout': Shame, Sympathy, and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century; 9 'Acting It as She Reads': Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe; 10 Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750-80; 11 Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-Lines in Hutcheson's Account of Moral Sentiment; 12 Anatomist and Painter: Hume's Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist; Part IV: Afterword
• 13 Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire, and the Translation of Homer (1675-1720)Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index
• 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.
• English