Introduction : unfelt affect -- The insensible parts of Locke's essay -- David Hartley's ghost matter -- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume -- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith -- Unfeeling before sensibility -- External and invisible -- Insensible against involuntary in Burney -- Austen as coda -- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography -- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography -- Gibbon in history -- The embrace of unfeeling -- Mandeville and the other happiness -- Feeling untaxed -- The money flow -- Invisible versus insensible -- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology.
Summary:
"Offers a new account of feeling in British Enlightenment literature, showing how writers discreetly evoke a hidden layer of affect that supports and intensifies our strongly felt passions and sentiments"-- Provided by publisher.
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