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..., this view finds a counterpoint in a governmentality that appears to be the “headless” result of a collective “feeling soma” that self-regulates in order to optimize its affective well-being. As Reber emphasizes in a series of compelling and informed readings, in the present moment this latter mode has come...

... perspective and political commitment that give Keywords its strength allowed Williams to produce a body of important criticism of novels, novelists, and the institution of the novel. Williams's signature formulation, structure of feeling , calls out for meshing with keywords analysis. He never quite...

... , encountering pages and pages of scenes depicting verbal, physical, and emotional abuse. This indicates that negative feelings and particularly hatred might not circulate in the novel in conventional measure, or coincidentally, but for specific reasons and to particular effects. This article argues that hatred...

... of anticolonial affects: contempt, hatred, disloyalty, and disaffection. A powerful disciplinary apparatus, the law bound language, feeling, and political action together into a formidable, if vague and incoherent, knot. In this regard, Section 124a serves as an emblem of the fraught and often contradictory...

... . New York : Perigee , 1980 . 70 – 78 . Nietzsche Friedrich . The Gay Science . Ed. Williams Bernard . Trans. Nauckhoff Josefine . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2001 . Modernist Str(u/i)ctures of Feeling JONATHAN GREENBERG, Modernism, Satire...

... we agree to these partitions, which are similar to those in our social worlds. For accepting such mediations and prohibitions, we as readers get the pleasure of feeling real, a feeling that depends on social space appearing coherent to us and our identity appearing to grow organically within...

... ever come to feel natural, satisfying, right ? Scholars in the tradition of ideology critique would argue that every culture has its own ways of persuading people to accept hierarchies and contradictions—from church liturgy to racial segregation—but Rosenthal offers a more surprising hypothesis. He...

... . Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. New York: Norton, 1979 . Wordsworth , William . William Wordsworth: Selections . Ed. Stephen Gill. New York: Oxford UP, 1984 . A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen's...

...LORRI NANDREA PAUL GORING, The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 222, $75.00 Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Reviews Once More, with Feeling PAUL GORING...

... , cloth, $55.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Reviews Thing, Feeling, Form john plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008), pp. 288, cloth, $37.50. peter...

... information such as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations . Lee shows that a data-driven scholarly book can be enchanting, even funny. This history of efforts to quantify the plethora of textual production now and then asks how an English professor feels today. Not so great, when he retakes the GRE English subject...

... . Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century . Oxford: Clarendon, 1988 . Nagel , James . “The Significance of Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” American Literary Realism, 1870–1910 31.3 ( 1999 ): 48 –57. Noble , Marianne . “The Ecstasies of Sentimental...

..., but the novelistic representation of battered corpses and rat feces has proved an uncontroversial, if not welcome, addition to lesson plans across the country. This essay argues that literary disgust has irrevocably shaped institutional feeling—how students feel in schools and how schools train students to feel...

... that ends, in On Liberty (1859), with Mill's idea that the insidious and invasive powers of the social realm may be circumvented by taking refuge, and taking pleasure, in text-based intimacy, an intimacy that allows others' thoughts and feelings to be present as representations. For Mill, public persuasive...

... feelings of loss and grief spur Zach to act on conviction and mobilize support for a cause. The narratives appear in three versions of Telephone , which the publisher released simultaneously. In a remarkable coincidence, this trivalent fiction limns summer 2020’s structure of feeling, where the strain...

...Kyoko Takanashi Taking Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey as a case study, this article explores how mid-eighteenth-century novels of sensibility theorized mediation—and by extension, the very act of reading. Sentimental fiction draws attention to the instability of individual feeling...

... are true because “certitude [i.e., true belief] is accompanied … by a specific feeling, proper to it, and discriminating it from other states, intellectual and moral.” By contrast, In “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” (1889) and elsewhere, Wilde attempts to make all beliefs seem open to doubt and debate—even...

... with newly enfranchised Irish populations—the very modes of thought and feeling Enlightenment theories of sociality had classified as disruptive to sympathetic economy—prove key to internalizing and embodying statistical abstractions. The unruly affective signature of the masses long designated...

... Russell Hochschild calls “emotional labor,” the act of performing an inauthentic feeling publicly for money. Like modern caregivers, Lucy Snowe expresses a sense of invisibility and stress over her cultural alterity. When Madame Beck's surveillance forces Lucy to enact her teacherly persona constantly...