Affective Worlds: Writing, Feeling & Nineteenth-Century Literature

by John Hughes

This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. Pursuing theoretically and philosophically informed close readings, John Hughes emphasizes issues of the embodied mind in literary texts, and explores the inventive and discriminating powers of thought -- as well as the projections of identity and relatedness -- staged and expressed by imaginative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184519442X
• ISBN13: 9781845194420
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"