Open Access Edition of Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment by James Noggle

FAIN: DR-285047-22

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
Jane Frances Bunker (Project Director: July 2021 to present)

This project will publish the book Unfelt, written by NEH Fellow James Noggle (NEH grant number FB-57539-14), in an electronic open access format under the Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 4.0, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Title: Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781501747137
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Author: James Noggle
Abstract: Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period's understanding of sensibility. Each of the four sections of Unfelt—on philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economy—charts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle's exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the period's writing and thought. Drawing inspiration from contemporary affect theory, Noggle charts how feeling and unfeeling flow and feed back into each other, identifying emotional dynamics at their most elusive and powerful: the potential, the incipient, the emergent, the virtual.
Primary URL: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501747137/unfelt/#bookTabs=1
Primary URL Description: Cornell
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvhhhfjv
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR
URL 3: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74766
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Type: Single author monograph

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