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... with people marginalized by ascriptive identities of race and class while endorsing the uncommonly vibrant inner lives of particular elite white subjects. Pain and pleasure are valued for arousing hidden depths of feeling that distinguish a singular subject’s affective life from purportedly commonplace...

...Christopher Nealon Duke University Press 2007 Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity . By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $19.95. Book Reviews New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature...

... “The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing” as a companion poem to “In Distrust of Merits,” which deals with another side of the question of what can keep humanity human. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Cristanne Distrusting: Marianne Moore on Miller Feeling and War in the 1940s...

...Caren Irr These timely, well-composed studies make a major contribution by solidly establishing the ideological work accomplished by familiar feelings. This work teaches us to recognize and assess conventional feelings produced by narratives of a heroic critical resistance to stale orthodoxy...

... , “when sentimentality meets politics, it uses personal stories to tell of structural effects, but in so doing it risks thwarting its very attempt to perform rhetorically a scene of pain that must be soothed politically.” That is, because liberalism marks off feelings as the private business of each...

...: An Imagined Conspiracy . By Michael S. Sherry. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. vii, 292 pp. $29.95. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History . By Heather Love. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 196 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Queering...

...Peter Coviello © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life . By Justus Nieland. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. x, 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. Intimacies . By Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago...

...Steven Belletto © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship . By Brook Thomas. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 298 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature...

..., Underground foregrounds the prosaic over the lyrical, veils the interiority of its characters, and unsettles the reader’s desire to feel with or for the humanity of the enslaved. The novel models an alternative way of engaging slavery as an infrastructure, gesturing toward a mode of fugitive affiliation...

...Elizabeth Freeman © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850. By Christine Levecq. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2008. xii, 306 pp. $35.00...

...: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Litera- ture. By Glenn Hendler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Glenn Hendler, who co-edited and contributed to Sentimental Men: Mascu- linity and the Politics of Affect (1999), has written...

...James Dawes Duke University 2004 James Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Dawes and the American Gothic An interest in the deep structure of aesthetic plea- sure and in the emotions that shake us when reading has in recent years come...

...Lisa M. Gordis Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England . By Van Engen Abram C. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 311 pp. Cloth , $74.00 ; e-book available. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England...

...Adam Frank American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville . By Paul Hurh . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. The Official World . By Mark Seltzer . Durham, NC : Duke Univ...

... integral to Kyla Schuller’s compelling case for the centrality of the biopolitics of feeling to the long nineteenth century. Sentimentalism for her is not simply a literary mode but a “fundamental mechanism of biopower” (2), “a technology to circulate and regulate feeling throughout a milieu, a political...

...Brian M. Reed Duke University Press 2007 Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words . By Julia A. Walker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 300 pp. $75.00. Ugly Feelings . By Sianne Ngai. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 432 pp...

... elucidates how artists both accommodate and resist such contradictory processes of containment. Tracing the ambivalent outlines of such “discursive legibility” (2), Racial Feelings assembles an expansive collection of textual and visual materials in a range of mediums including novels, memoir, graphic...

... culture normalized the possession and display of feelings. The antebellum writings of author Herman Melville are hardly alone in demonstrating apathy’s hermeneutic and aesthetic uses; they nevertheless suggest a concentrated encounter with apathy, given how the author thematically foregrounds unfeeling...

... of the antinomians’ monstrous births and in the US Senate floor debate of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act just before the Iraq War in 2003. In both instances, rhetoric comparing familiar bodies to unfamiliar corporeal forms conjures powerful feelings of disgust that legitimize intervention. These powerful...