Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

by James Noggle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501747126
• ISBN13: 9781501747120
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher