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List of contents
Introduction: Unfelt Affect
1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness
1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's
Essay
1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter
1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume
1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith
2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement
2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility
2.2. External and Invisible
2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney
2.4. Austen as Coda
3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions
3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography
3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography
3.3. Gibbon in History
3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling
4. Political Economy: Moving with Money
4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness
4.2. Feeling Untaxed
4.3. The Money Flow
4.4. Invisible versus Insensible
Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology
About the author
James Noggle is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The
Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing and
The Skeptical Sublime. He also edits the
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of
The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
