Passions, sympathy and print culture

Chapter 1 Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

Chapter 2 Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups

Chapter 3 The Emotional Contents of Swift’s saeva indignatio

Chapter 4 ‘Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the Like’: Daniel Defoe’s Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print

Chapter 5 Eliza Haywood’s Progress through the Passions

Chapter 6 That ‘Tremendous’ Mr Dennis: The Sublime, Common Sense, and Criticism

Chapter 7 Adam Smith and the Theatre in Moral Sentiments

Chapter 8 ‘Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout’: Shame, Sympathy, and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 9 ‘Acting It as She Reads’ : Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe

Chapter 10 Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750–80

Chapter 11 Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-Lines in Hutcheson’s Account of Moral Sentiment

Chapter 12 Anatomist and Painter: Hume’s Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist