... specifically, it examines the early modern rehabilitation of wonder as valuable emotional attitude; René Descartes's identification of surprise as a pivotal movement in the passions; and the emergence of surprise as a key term in the eighteenth-century discourse of aesthetics. It also discusses repetition...

... reference to the affective vocabulary of John Milton's Paradise Lost, the discourse of aesthetics and philosophy, the novel, and latter-day emotion theory. It then discusses the explanatory possibilities of the word “surprise” as used by Wordsworth, and specifically how it figures in some...

... expected, an accessibility to novelty grounded in repetition and familiarity. In his poetry, Keats gave nuanced accounts of surprise: mixtures of the expected and the accidental, corporeal shock and cognitive reckoning, external stimulus and internal emotion, unknowing and recognition. This chapter also...

... euphemisms, are intended to mask the true meaning and impact of violence. Their function is to render the precise meaning of an action vague and ambiguous, its consequences encrypted in a term that cannot quite be pinned be down by those not granted the key. They thus serve to mentally and emotionally...

... Istanbul and home communities. Long-term migrants frequently foster close ties to transnational families, pursue their own aspirations for adventure and independence, and often establish emotionally meaningful ties with men in Turkey. In writing about the transnational lives and intimate practices...

... to understand their past, but they did this in highly personal ways that differed from histories constructed by cultural arbiters. History served to complement landscape and emotion, never occupying the sole focus of the touristic gaze. Ballston Spa N Y blood imagery in commemorations commemoration Lake...

... supports the expressions of high emotion and intense desire long seen as among the novel's reasons for existence. In their privative sense, words like insensible and imperceptible sometimes serve as a plot device. Yet novelists also gesture to the insensible to evoke...

... stemming from the Mediterranean, evidence that Mediterranean affective models circulated well beyond the borders of the sea. The Mediterranean is thematically and emotionally omnipresent—in one episode, for example, the aggrieved duchess literally threatens to drown her sorrows and herself in the sea (“kar...

... the affective merging of the human with the material thing in the form of a thing-protagonist; that thing-protagonist exhibits a suffusion with human emotion in a way that ultimately makes the thing into a human equivalent. In the case of the lapdog lyric, the poetry celebrating the “love” between the lady...

...In this collection of essays, the author writes openly about her experience as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism. The author's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. The book...

... … but we’re kind of forced to … and … it kind of upsets us.” Considering the changes caregivers undergo and the intense emotionality, they identified both positive and negative effects of the emotional and physical labor on their identities. As we have seen, caregivers said they “sucked it up and did...

... that it will have a broad appeal to scholars interested in the history of poetry and poetics, as well as to those who study the literary history of gender, affect, and emotion....

... traces how women’s mobility is fundamentally reshaping their emotional worlds and social ties: with men, children, work, households of origin and destination communities. Since the early 1990s, post-Soviet women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey as labor migrants. Based...

...This book reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion's socially...

... for an experience of collective emotion to have played such a pivotal role in the rationalization of modern society — a process traditionally understood to involve the exclusion of emotion and subjectivity from public affairs. It focuses particularly on the extent to which mid-nineteenth-century rationalizing...

... “bad” and “good” forms of surprise—between violence and enlightenment, physical attack and aesthetic pleasure. As a literary and intellectual history of an emotion, this book also investigates how surprise in the eighteenth century became valued as an experience and how authors sought new ways...

...This chapter considers how Jane Austen explores the uses and abuses of surprise—its sexual politics, its aesthetic dimensions, its psychic and emotional contours—in her novel Northanger Abbey. It argues that Austen represents emotion not only as a datum of experience but also...

... in the region. Featuring the accounts of three women entrepreneurs from Russia, the chapter reflects on how particular political-economic formations generate their own distinctive affective states. The chapter considers the emotion work required of women as men contend with shame about no longer being primary...

..., but also to find husbands who would provide for them both materially and emotionally (2010, 25). Some women also recounted that they found the more gender-egalitarian attitudes in the domestic realm, especially among American and Canadian men, to be appealing. Patico points to the need...

... the dreamvision topos of birds lulling a dreamer to sleep in any number of places, including in the first dream, when Will falls asleep at the sound of rushing water. It elaborates on hearing as it is inextricably tied to feeling, both as sensation and as emotion. dream vision topos Piers Plowman draws...