Romanticism and the Emotions

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.

• | Author: Joel Faflak, Richard C. Sha
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 09, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1107637287
• | ISBN-13: 9781107637283