... , 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, and the...

... 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 on social space appearing coherent to us and our identity appearing to grow...

... settled in the first place? What is the process by which certain conclusions have 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...

..., 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...

... . The Prelude . 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...

...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, The...

... ( 1981 ): 65 –81. Mullan , John . 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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 in a...

..., desires, feelings, and intentions. I introduce the term “sociocognitive complexity” to describe patterns of embedment of mental states within mental states in fiction and discuss the role of social situations featuring third-level embedment—a mind within a mind within a mind—in prose fiction, drama, and...

... if the reader is bored, puzzled, disgusted, irritated, or otherwise disengaged. Using Patricia Meyer Spacks's Boredom and Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings as critical works to support my case, I suggest that we should pay more attention to the ways in which reading may confuse or alienate us, and I...

... constitutes, legitimates, and sometimes alters the institutional conditions that regulated disparate aspects of the social order. Because of their capacity to take hold of the processes of behaving, thinking, and feeling immanent to their readers' conduct and to create affective protocols that introduce and...

...Marian Eide James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes depend on both communal feeling and...

... discontinuity associated 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...

... psychological logic of compensation that operates in cosmopolitan readers to keep less pleasant feelings such as guilt, depression, futility, or isolation at bay. Cole's work interrogates the imperative to always connect, intimating all the while certain possibilities for distance as a mode of relationality...

... 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...

... 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, &amp...