{"product_id":"affecting-fictions-9780674025127","title":"Affecting Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrailkill offers a new understanding of late-nineteenth-century American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, positioning her argument against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a truly important project of reading realism through somatic experience, including sensation, aesthetics, and physiology. Thrailkill offers bold interpretations of the relations between corporality and realism. Working at the intersections of modernity, genre, and history, Thrailkill challenges us to incorporate \"physiological thinking\" into our theories of affect and reading realism's effects on the body. An impressive response to the explosion of work on sentimental and sensational fictions. -- Dale Bauer, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003eThrailkill opens up fresh ways of thinking about our whole aesthetic experience—meaning our whole body-and-mind experience—by combining contemporary theories of emotion with surprising readings of literature and philosophy from a century ago. The book excitingly reorients our understanding American literary realism, and it uses this literature to advance our current discussions of the place of affect in writing and reading. -- Randall Knoper, author of \u003cnonhuptitle\u003eActing Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance\u003c\/nonhuptitle\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The \"Affective Fallacy\" Fallacy   The Entanglements of Two Cultures   Literature and Neurology, 1860-1910   Rethinking Emotion    1. \"The Zest, the Tingle, the Excitement of Reality\"   Toward a New Conceptual Genealogy for American Literary Realism   \"Being Moved\": Modernity, Evolution, and the Reflex Arc   Laughter, Reflection, and Realization in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn    2. Statistical Pity: Elsie Venner and the Controversy over Childbed Fever   The Case against Contagion   Representing \"Ontological Shadows\"   Holmes's \"Algebra of Human Nature\"   Pathological Particularity in the Novel   Coda: Anecdote and Abstraction    3. Fear and Epistemology: Tracking the Train of Feeling in A Mortal Antipathy   From Physiognomy to Physiology   Excess and Dissolution of the Nervous System   Embodied Memory and the Pathogenic Secret   The Forensic Self    4. Nervous Effort: Gilman, Crane, and the Psychophysical Pathologies of Everyday Life   Freud, Feminist Reading, and Interrogative Criticism   A Physiological Approach to Nervousness   Effort, Agitation, Aesthetics   Fracture and Fabrication: Crane's The Red Badge of Courage   Coda: Reconstruction and \"The Yellow Wallpaper\"    5. \"Mindless\" Pleasure: Embodied Music in The Awakening and Theron Ware   New Varieties of Religious Experience   Theron Ware and the Ironic Rhythm of the Sick Soul   Kate Chopin's Lyrical \"Gospel of Relaxation\"   Music and the Sounding Board of the Body   The Rhythm of Desire in The Awakening   The Pleasures of \"The Storm\"    6. Corporeal Wonder: The Occult Entrancements of The Wings of the Dove   Charming Milly   From Trance to Transference--and Back Again   William James and Mrs. Piper: The Medium Is the Message   \"Tremendous Rites of Nullification\"    Conclusion: Burning Issues    Notes   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403530608983,"sku":"9780674025127","price":51.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674025127.jpg?v=1730483745","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affecting-fictions-9780674025127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}