The recent surge of interest in affect and emotion has productively crossed disciplinary
boundaries within and between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, but has not …

This introductory chapter situates the contributions of individual essays in this edited
collection in the contexts of recent work in affect studies. Volume editor Stephen Ahern …

This study responds to recent critical interest in the topic of spectrality arising out of Derrida's
Specters of Marx, a reading of Capital's account of the commodity which emphasizes the …

Scholars in a range of disciplines have turned of late to the study of affect as a way to better
understand human agency. But “what are affects good for?,” asks sociologist Patricia Clough …

In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul
Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of …

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth
century, MC. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne's fiction and its …

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in
perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels …

From Robert Lovelace's uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to to Basil
Hallward's first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British …

Increasing critical energy focuses on history of emotion and affective theory in order to better
understand the eighteenth century. Scholars are re‐examining history, literature, and culture …

Erin Wilson it was often said in the eighteenth century that a good and decent young lady
ought to possess a degree of sensibility. 1 The delicacy of one's body and its ability to fall …