... positioned on the other side of the boundary. We get pleasure from reading realist novels, Jaffe argues, when 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...

... 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...

...-ranging discourses about capitalism, culture, and affect. Reber's examination of these discourses, moreover, allows her to identify what might seem to be improbably connected cultural objects in order to make laudably bold claims. The two chapters in the book's first section on “The Feeling Soma” offer...

...Jonathan Arac; Holly Yanacek Nineteenth-century novels continued this distance from earlier emphasis on Empfindsamkeit , and the more neutral word Gefühl became predominant. Might we consider this a change in the structure of feeling? The entries for “ Empfindung ” and “ Gefühl ” in Jacob...

... , 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...

... . 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...

... . 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...

... . 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...

... they dominated access to the powers of information. Yet Overwhelmed , while not dedicated to diversity or recovery of forgotten writers, feels inclusive. Lee takes little for granted about the boundaries and purposes of literature. Along the way, he engages thoughtfully with a spectrum of scholars, critics...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... almost invariably claims that The Years is a failure (aesthetically and personally for Woolf, whose initial vision of the novel was that it would amount to her summa). This essay argues to the contrary: Woolf abandoned her plan to set down her summa (“all I think, feel, despise, like, admire, hate...

... and world suggests that the visual is a somatic epistemological mode in which the entire body is engaged as an interpreter of its surroundings and a producer of social meaning. In this sense, visuality is the metonymic sensorial medium of the thinking body and the feeling brain as against the outmoded word...

..., in miniature, the affective processes involved in the work as a whole. It is intended as a microcosm of the temporal workings of long narrative. Rather than offering the “see, it works this way” epistemology of close reading, it functions in Victorian reviewing and novel theory as “see, it feels this way...