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

by Heather Kerr (Editor), David Lemmings (Editor), Robert Phiddian (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137455406
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

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

1. Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture; Heather Kerr, David Lemmings and Robert Phiddian
2. Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups; W. Gerrod Parrott
3. The Emotional Contents of Swift's saeva indignatio; Robert Phiddian
4. 'Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the like': Daniel Defoe's Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print; Jean McBain
5. Eliza Haywood's Progress through the Passions; Aleksondra Hultquist
6. That 'Tremendous' Mr. Dennis: the Sublime, Common Sense and Criticism; Kathrine Cuccuru
7. Adam Smith and the Theater in Moral Sentiments; Laura J. Rosenthal
8. 'Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout': Shame, Sympathy and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century; Emily Cock
9. 'Acting it as she reads': Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe; Amelia Dale
10. Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750-1780; Eric Parisot
11. Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-lines in Hutcheson's Account of Moral Sentiment; Glen Pettigrove
12. Anatomist and Painter: Hume's Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist; Michael L. Frazer
13. Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire and the Translation of Homer 1675-1720; Conal Condren