... frames Unfelt as the history of an adverb, insensibly , used “to describe what could look, if described broadly and roughly enough, like the basic components of the ideology of modern Western liberalism” (192). As a mere adverb grows into an idiom and from there into an ideological force, so...

... for the paradoxical, as in maintaining that the Marianne dominated by her sensi- bility is really “insensible” (p. go), or that the lively Crawfords lack “real live- HOWAKD S. BABB 91 liness” (pp. 164-65), or that Emma’s “extraordinarily active...

... insensibility and, worse, indifference to “the debts it had incurred on its own inherited ideals” (158). Morrison has confronted the issue more directly, pointing to the incongruity at the heart of “a nation of people who decided that their world view would combine agendas for individual freedom...

... with his chemical experiments, is here shown making himself into a natural philosopher by gluttonous reading, for dictionary illustrations, of Bacon, Browne, Arbuthnot, Newton, Boyle, Glanvil, Locke, Watts, and a dozen others. Insensibly he acquired a vocabulary specifically designed...

... existence without enough mar- gin to permit any feeling that is specifically human. This is excellent preparation for the final stanza, which the reader awaits wondering what Ransom can possibly do to enhance the insensibility so far evoked. 584 JOHN CROWE...

... materialism” features an inductive movement from the sensible to the insensible, a precipitous shift or collapse of scale and perspective, a temporal compression of beginning and end, and a creative act that feels paradoxically like an evacuation of agency. From sixteenth-century debates around astrology...

... elevates this hypothesis, insensibly, to the status of a fact. He almost strikes to the heart of Jonson’s New Inn (another neglected work) but then goes astray because the consciously absurd plot of this late comedy is not handled as Cope thinks it should be. His reading of Every Man Out of His...

... of the lecture. Since the essence of poetry lies in its affective powers, the perception of poetry is determined by the “sensi- bility or insensibility of the percipient” (SP, p. 184). For Housman, the question “Am I capable of recognising poetry if I come across it?” is exactly the same as “Do I...

... d’amour qui remplissent mon cceur? Pourrais-je survivre ?ice qui m’occupe incessamment, pour mener une vie tranquille et languissante? Ce vide et cette insensibiliti! ne peuvent me convenir” (p. 54). Mariane has come to identify her passion with her very existence. Outside of the extremes...

... . Lee Wendy . 2020 . Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Luhmann Niklas . 2000 . Art as Social System . Translated by Knodt Eva M. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Lukács Georg . 1971 . The Theory...

..., as he fell upon the bed, receiving his forehead, and covering the greatest part of both his eyes, gently sunk down with his head (his elbow giving way backwards) till his nose touch’d the quilt :-his left arm hung insensible over the side of the bed, his knuckles reclining upon the handle...

... formerly 2s. 6d. [per] 100; they are now 30s. He had been hurt in driving a cart, his leg broke, his body driven over, his skull fractured. He felt no pain till he recovered from his first insensibility. It was then late in the evening, when the light was just going away. (p. 63...

...- tionary progress in The Oripn of Species when he remarks that “natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing . . . every variation, even the slightest, rejecting that which is bad, preserv- ing . . . all that is good; silently and insensibly working . . . at the improvement of each...

..., reflexive con- sciousness that turns silence into ditties of no tone, Wordsworth’s trav- elers haven’t got it. They are, we are told, “insensibly subdued / To settled quiet.” From the compound redundancies of the phrase, we understand that the insensibility goes all the way down. Levinson I...

..., in Le Dkluge a repre- sentative of humanity in defiance of an arbitrary and insensate divinity, in Stello and Daphnk an aloof but exalted intellectual and spiritual prophet, in La Canne de jonc an obscure and devoted soldier, in La Fla’ite a poor man “aveuglP d’esprit”-and so on. The hero’s...

... the horizon of political experi- ence . . . and insensibly it created and prepared a popular intelli- gence to which one can appeal, no longer helplessly” [p. 361). Egremon t’s growth in political awareness and eloquence parallels that of the country as a whole. Oddly, Disraeli chose...

... Ferguson. A broad variety of writings considered the constructed nature of sociability. Beenstock n Social Contract and H. G. Wells 61 Like Shelley, Wells is critical of science as an activity that isolates its practitioners and makes them insensible to the ethical and social...

... to render the mind exquisitely sensible to agreeable sensa- tions, and equally insensible to disagreeable ones” (EV, 2n). It is not my intention to ask whether Darwin’s observation, in the first footnote of this extensively annotated poem, is an accurate account of Epicurus’s position on pleasure...

... ) focuses on the figure of the “insensible” who does not feel, Hershinow ( 2019 ) on the “novice” who does not learn or change, and Bewes ( 2020 : 307) on a type he calls the “anagonist,” who “would not only not act, but would not feel, not think, not search, would not even hesitate.” Such accounts...

... of coijrdinates, establishing an over- all pattern and leading from one point to another, spatially and tem- porally. Repeatedly, Mathias visualizes “un oiseau de mer qui s’ktait posC sur un des pieux de la clcture, au bout du jardin,” while overhead a gull, “ail rond, inexpressif, insensible,” hovers...