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Louise Joy

Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections

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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 mean… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-46007-5
  • EAN: 9783030460075
  • Produktnummer: 34509856
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.7 cm 408 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
  • Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 408

Über den Autor


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.

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