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Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism

Introduction: A feel for the text / Stephen Ahern

Part I. Feeling early modern. The body in wonder: affective suspension and medieval queer futurity / Wan-Chuan Kao ; (Non- )belief in things: affect theory and a new literary materialism / Neil Vallelly ; Semblances of affect in the early English novel: narrating intensity / Joel P. Sodano

Part II. Affective transmissions, Romantic to Victorian. Reading and the sociality of disappointing affects in Jane Austen / Carmen Faye Mathes ; Shame and its affects: the form-Content implosion of Shelley's The Cenci / Merrilees Roberts ; Bodily sympathy, affect, and Victorian sensation fiction / Tara MacDonald ; Feeling other(s): Dracula and the ethics of unmanageable affect / Kimberly O'Donnell

Part III. Modernist contingencies: engaging the ineffable. Glad animals: speed, affect, and modern literature / Katherine G. Sutherland ; Senses without names: affective becomings in William Faulkner and Carson McCullers / Jill Marsden

Part IV. Bodies write back: attending to affect in contemporary writing. Invisible memories: black feminist literature and its affective flights / Jamie Rogers ; On good listening, postcritique, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' affective testimony / Tobias Skiveren ; Feeling nature, reconsidered: ecocriticism, affect, and the case of H is for Hawk / Lisa Ottum.

Literature > History and criticism.