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Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning's rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.

Syncope (Pathology) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Chaucer. --- James Joyce. --- Shakespeare. --- aesthetics. --- affect theory. --- disability studies. --- gender performance. --- medical humanities. --- queer theory. --- sensibility.

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In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the new science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

Empiricism in literature. --- Philosophy of nature in literature. --- Observation (Scientific method) --- English literature --- Literature and science --- Science --- History --- History and criticism. --- Methodology --- Bacon, Francis, --- Influence. --- England --- Intellectual life --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- nonchalance, affect theory, experimental science, Michel de Montaigne, renaissance literature.

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Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place. Hruschka argues that friendship is a special form of reciprocal altruism based not on tit-for-tat accounting or forward-looking rationality, but rather on mutual goodwill that is built up along the way in human relationships.

Friendship --- Kinship. --- Human behavior. --- Interpersonal relations. --- Social aspects. --- affect theory. --- africa. --- altruism. --- animal friendships. --- anthropology. --- biocultural anthropology. --- china. --- companionship. --- cooperation. --- cultural anthropology. --- emotions. --- ethnography. --- evolution. --- evolutionary biology. --- family relationships. --- fear. --- friendship. --- generosity. --- germany. --- goodwill. --- human behavior. --- iceland. --- imaginary friends. --- kinship. --- maasai. --- nonfiction. --- platonic relationships. --- psychology. --- reciprocal altruism. --- reciprocity. --- relationships. --- reputation. --- romantic relationships. --- russia. --- science. --- shame. --- social networks. --- society. --- trust.

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Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations to secure compliance with their decisions, obtain resources, and maintain their political influence. In Judicial Reputation, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg explain how reputation is not only an essential quality of the judiciary as a whole, but also of individual judges. Perceptions of judicial systems around the world range from widespread admiration to utter contempt, and as judges participate within these institutions some earn respect, while others are scorned. Judicial Reputation explores how judges respond to the reputational incentives provided by the different audiences they interact with-lawyers, politicians, the media, and the public itself-and how institutional structures mediate these interactions. The judicial structure is best understood not through the lens of legal culture or tradition, but through the economics of information and reputation. Transcending those conventional lenses, Garoupa and Ginsburg employ their long-standing research on the latter to examine the fascinating effects that governmental interactions, multicourt systems, extrajudicial work, and the international rule-of-law movement have had on the reputations of judges in this era.

Judges. --- Judicial process --- Judicial ethics. --- Public opinion. --- judges, reputation, public opinion, honor, integrity, trust, authority, faith, judicial system, courts, admiration, contempt, affect theory, nonfiction, politics, political science, supreme court, lawyers, politicians, media, information, multicourt systems, extrajudicial work, ethics, audience, selection, monitoring, globalization, international law, reform.

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"Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa's colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. Wayward Feeling reveals how racism, sexism, and other forms of structural disenfranchisement have continued to assert themselves in affective terms, and how these terms have been recast in spaces both public and intimate in "post-rainbow" times. Helene Strauss argues that the tension between aspiration and achievability has yielded modes of feeling that increasingly disrupt the thrall of post-apartheid nation-building and reconciliation myths, even as wide-spread attachment to the utopian ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle continues to shape dissenting political organising and cultural production. Drawing on a variety of audio-visual forms--including video installations, conceptual artwork, documentary film, live art, and sonic installations--Wayward Feeling examines some of the affective resources that people in contemporary South Africa have been drawing on to make difficult lives more bearable."--

South Africa. --- South African audio-visual culture. --- South African cultural studies. --- aesthetic activism. --- affect theory. --- critical race theory. --- feminist and queer theory. --- post-apartheid South Africa. --- post-rainbow South Africa. --- Aesthetics. --- Art and social action. --- Art and society. --- Sound art. --- Video art.