Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, without which it would not have been possible to produce this book. The project began life in September 2012 as an international Collaboratory for the Change Program of the ARC Centre, and we are very grateful to Janet Hart for her kind assistance in convening that meeting. Additionally, we acknowledge the very helpful contributions made by the audience on that occasion. We would also like to thank all the contributors for producing essays of such high quality and for their patience with the production process. Last, but not least, we are very grateful to Jen McCall and her team at Palgrave Macmillan for supporting the project. 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 This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.