The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C.1790–C.1920

Jock Macleod, Peter Denney, William Christie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8558-7 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century, showing how liberals were deeply concerned with the nature, function, and effects of the emotions and how links between reason, disinterestedness and the positive role of the emotions became a hallmark of liberal writing. -- .

This volume from a selection of distinguished international scholars is the first of its kind to explore in depth the emotional dimensions of liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century. Addressing liberal writing in the public sphere rather than high political or parliamentary liberalism, it comprises a clear, context-setting introduction and eleven substantive chapters. The chapters analyse key texts and figures from the 1790s through to the 1920s and offer several different approaches to the central concern with the emotions and liberalism. These include examining the place of the emotions in the ‘good life’; the social and political function of the emotions; emotional rhetoric in liberal writing; and liberal theories of the emotions. -- .

Jock Macleod is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith University William Christie is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Australian National University Peter Denney is Associate Professor of History at Griffith University -- .

Introduction: Liberalism and the Emotions in the Long Nineteenth Century – Jock Macleod, William Christie, and Peter Denney

Theoretical Perspectives
1 Between science and social philosophy: emotion in liberal discourse at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries – Michael Freeden
2 Liberalism, emotion, and temporality in Mill and Bain – Jock Macleod
3 Victorian ‘artificial intelligence’: or what George Eliot teaches us about statistical modelling – Lauren Goodlad

Gender and Empire
4 ‘Strange manners’: liberalism and the uses of women – William Christie
5 Sentiment, violence, liberalism: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s The Aboriginal Mother (1838) – Anna Johnston

Liberal Lives
6 A Byron among the industrialists: W. R. Greg and the structures of feeling of Manchester liberalism – Jon Mee
7 Liberal autobiography and the possibility of happiness: Mill, Martineau, and Spencer – Alexis Harley
8 A liberal intimacy: Leonard and Kate Courtney in the 1880s – Geoff Ginn

Aesthetics and the Senses
9 Listening to liberal religion: sound, feeling, and dissenting attitudes to public worship in the 1790s – Peter Denney
10 The ear of the liberal body – Sarah Collins
11 Sources of liberalism: the geopolitics of beauty – Regenia Gagnier -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Zusatzinfo	3 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	486 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5261-8558-X / 152618558X
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-8558-7 / 9781526185587
Zustand	Neuware