Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture [electronic resource] : Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain /
Kerr, Heather.editor.
Lemmings, David.editor.
Phiddian, Robert.editor.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Part I: The Challenge of the Passions to Eighteenth-Century Studies; 1 Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture; 2 Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups; Part II: Sympathy, Improvement, and the Formation of Virtual Communities; 3 The Emotional Contents of Swift's saeva indignatio; 4 'Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the Like': Daniel Defoe's Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print; 5 Eliza Haywood's Progress through the Passions; 6 That 'Tremendous' Mr Dennis: The Sublime, Common Sense, and Criticism
7 Adam Smith and the Theatre in Moral SentimentsPart III: Performing the Self: Communicating Feelings and Identifying Authentic Humanity; 8 'Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout': Shame, Sympathy, and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century; 9 'Acting It as She Reads': Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe; 10 Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750-80; 11 Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-Lines in Hutcheson's Account of Moral Sentiment; 12 Anatomist and Painter: Hume's Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist; Part IV: Afterword
13 Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire, and the Translation of Homer (1675-1720)Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Great Britain-History.
Psychology
Emotions.
British literature.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Journalism.
History of Psychology.
Emotion.
British and Irish Literature.
Modern History.