Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture....Pages 3-19
Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups....Pages 20-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Emotional Contents of Swift’s saeva indignatio ....Pages 47-67
‘Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the Like’: Daniel Defoe’s Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print....Pages 68-85
Eliza Haywood’s Progress through the Passions....Pages 86-104
That ‘Tremendous’ Mr Dennis: The Sublime, Common Sense, and Criticism....Pages 105-121
Adam Smith and the Theatre in Moral Sentiments ....Pages 122-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
‘Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout’: Shame, Sympathy, and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 145-164
 ‘Acting It as She Reads’: Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe ....Pages 165-182
Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750–80....Pages 183-202
Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-Lines in Hutcheson’s Account of Moral Sentiment....Pages 203-222
Anatomist and Painter: Hume’s Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist....Pages 223-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire, and the Translation of Homer (1675–1720)....Pages 245-265
Back Matter....Pages 266-290