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feeling
fiction
historicism
history of emotion
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Thomas Carlyle
William Godwin
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- ISBN 9781474481885
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotions, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks the paradigm of resurrection or revivification that has come to stand for romantic history, as well as that history's place within the development of modern historiography.
Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021). She is currently the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project ‘SouthHem’ and is completing a monograph entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890.
