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Thematology --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Emotions in literature

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Thematology --- French literature --- Racine, Jean --- Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature --- Emotions in literature --- Love in literature --- Tragedy --- Racine, Jean, --- Emotions in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Phaedra --- In literature. --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699 - Phèdre

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This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion.

English fiction --- Emotions in literature. --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- Emotions in literature --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- E-books --- Literature --- History of civilization --- English fiction. --- Roman anglais --- Roman --- Histoire et critique. --- Aspect psychologique.

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There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.

Romanticism --- Emotions in literature. --- English literature --- Literary criticism / european / english, irish, scottish, welsh. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- Old French literature --- Emotions in literature --- French literature --- German literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Love in literature --- Romance literature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives