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AFFECT AND LITERATURE ThisbookconsidershowAffect,theexperienceoffeelingoremotion, hasdevelopedasacriticalconceptwithinliterarystudiesindifferent periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the Classical to the Contemporary, the first section of the book, ‘Origins’,considerstheimportanceofparticularareasofphilosophy, theory, and criticism that have been important for conceptualizing affect and its relation to literature, including ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, eighteenth-century aesthetics, Marxist theory, psychoanalysis,queer theory,and postcolonial theory.The chapters of the second section, ‘Developments’, correspond to those of the previous section and build on their insights through readings of particular texts. The final ‘Applications’ section is focused on con- temporary and future lines of enquiry and revolves around aparticularsetofconcerns:mediaandcommunications,capitalism, and an environment of affective relations that extend to ecology, socialcrisis,andwar. alex houen isauthorofTerrorismandModern Literature(2002), andPowersofPossibility:ExperimentalAmericanWritingsincethe1960s (2012). His edited publications include: a special issue on ‘Affects, Text,andPerformativity’ofTextualPractice25:2(March/April2011); and (with Jan-Melissa Schramm), Sacrifice and Modern War Literature:BattleofWaterloototheWaronTerror(2018).Healsoco- editstheinternationaljournalofpoetry,BlackboxManifold. cambridge critical concepts CambridgeCriticalConceptsfocusesontheimportantideasanimatingtwentieth- andtwenty-first-centuryliterarystudies.Eachconceptaddressedintheserieshas had a profound impact on literary studies, as well as on other disciplines, and alreadyhasasubstantialcriticalbibliographysurroundingit.Thisseriescaptures the dynamic critical energies transmitted across twentieth- and twenty-first- century literary landscapes: the concepts critics bring to reading, interpretation and criticism. By addressing the origins, development and application of these ideas,thebookscollateandclarifyhowtheseparticularconceptshavedeveloped, whilealsofeaturingfreshinsightsandestablishingnewlinesofenquiry. CambridgeCriticalConceptsshiftsthefocusfromperiod-orgenre-basedliterary studiesofkeytermstothehistoryanddevelopmentofthetermsthemselves.Broad and detailed contributions cumulatively identify and investigate the various historical and cultural catalysts that made these critical concepts emerge as established twenty-first-century landmarks in the discipline. The level will be suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates and specialists, as well as for those teaching outside their own research areas, and will have cross-disciplinary relevanceforsubjectssuchashistoryandphilosophy. TitlesintheSeries LawandLiterature EditedbyKieranDolinUniversityofWesternAustralia TimeandLiterature EditedbyThomasM.AllenUniversityofOttawa TheGlobalSouthandLiterature EditedbyRussellWest-PavlovUniversityofTübingen TraumaandLiterature EditedbyRogerKurtzTheCollegeatBrockport,StateUniversityofNewYork FoodandLiterature EditedbyGitanjaliShahaniSanFranciscoStateUniversity Animals,Animality,andLiterature Edited by Bruce Boehrer, Molly Hand and Brian Massumi Florida State University,UniversityofMontreal TerrorismandLiterature EditedbyPeterHermanSanDiegoStateUniversity ClimateandLiterature EditedbyAdelineJohnsUniversityofSurrey OrientalismandLiterature EditedbyGeoffreyNashSOAS,UniversityofLondon DecadenceandLiterature EditedbyJaneDesmaraisandDavidWeirGoldsmithCollegeandHunterCollege AffectandLiterature EditedbyAlexHouenUniversityofCambridge AFFECT AND LITERATURE edited by ALEX HOUEN UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108424516 doi:10.1017/9781108339339 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-42451-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents NotesonContributors pagex Introduction:AffectandLiterature 1 AlexHouen i origins 31 1. PoeticFear-RelatedAffectsandSocietyinGreco-Roman Antiquity 33 DanaLaCourseMunteanu 2. SecondaryAffectinLessing,Mendelssohn,andNicolai 49 StefanUhlig 3. AffectandLifeinSpinoza,Nietzsche,andBergson 66 JohnProtevi 4. FeelingsundertheMicroscope:NewCriticalAffect 83 HelenThaventhiran 5. ‘WeManufactureFun’:CapitalandtheProductionofAffect 100 RossWilson 6. JacquesLacan’sEvanescentAffects 116 Jean-MichelRabaté 7. TheDurabilityofAffectandtheAgeingofGay MaleQueerTheory 133 GeoffGilbert 8. Affect,Meaning,Becoming,andPower:Massumi, Spinoza,Deleuze,andNeuroscience 159 AnthonyUhlmann vii viii Contents 9. TranslatingPostcolonialAffect 175 SnejaGunew 10. MakingSorrowSweet:EmotionandEmpathy intheExperienceofFiction 190 AlisonDenham ii developments 211 11. FeelingFeelingsinEarlyModernEngland 213 BenedictS.Robinson 12. LaughablePoetry 229 MatthewBevis 13. Modernism,FormalInnovation,andAffectinsome ContemporaryIrishNovels 249 DerekAttridge 14. TheAntihumanistTone 267 ChristopherNealon 15. BetteDavis’sEyesandMinoritarianSurvival:Camp, Melodrama,andSpectatorship 284 AmberJamillaMusser 16. AffectiveForm 300 AnkhiMukherjee 17. SubalternAffects 317 StephenMorton iii applications 335 18. AffectandEnvironmentinContemporaryEcopoetics 337 MargaretRonda 19. ContemporaryCrisisFictions:Twenty-FirstCentury Disaffection 355 EmilyHorton 20.ShinyHappyImperialism:AnAffectiveExploration of‘WaysofLife’intheWaronTerror 373 AmiraJarmakani
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