目录

目　录

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter I　Sentiment and Its Inward Turn around the 1740s

I.i.Terminology of Emotion, and Writing as Medium in the Formation of a Metaphysical Selfhood

I.ii.Etymological History of Sentiment and Its Inward Turn in the Eighteenth Century as a Discourse of Sensibility

I.iii.Sentimentality, and Its Relevance with the Rise of Visuality Discourse in the Epistemological Shift

I.iv.Sympathy as Moral Sentiment, Interiority, and Exchange of Things(and Personae)

Chapter II　Rhetoric and the Rise of Modern Aesthetics:Emotions in Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Inquiry

II.i.Sympathy, Description and Its Sounding Economy

II.ii.Rhetoric, History and French Revolution

II.iii.Body Economy of Sentiment and Somatic Aesthetics of Theatricality

II.iv.Sentiment, Immediacy, and Ekphrasis

II.v.Print, Communication of Feelings, and Reformulation of Sympathy

II.vi.Tradition, Class, and Sympathy of the Other

II.vii.Empiricism, Physiological Effect of Sensibility, and Antipictorial Narration

II.vii.Emotional Immediacy:Its Fate

Chapter III　Practicing Passions:David Hume and His Philosophy in Writing

III.i.Sympathy, History and Writing

III.ii.Theatrical Presence in Print Medium and Masculinity in Media Modernity

III.iii.Personal History of Writing in a Grammatical Issue of Identity of the Enlightenment (https://www.daowen.com)

III.iv.Causation in Print Medium as Empirical Philosophy

III.v.Affective Property and Literary Copyright in Print Virtualization

Chapter IV　Poetic Mediality and Feminine Sentiments in William Wordsworth’s Early Poems:Gender, Modern Literature, and Textual Mediation

IV.i.Man of Feeling and Romanticism in a History of Mediation

IV.ii.Sensibility as Gendered, Authenticity, and the Scriptural System

IV.iii.Political Economy of Romantic Literary Labor in Media History

IV.iv.Sympathetic Life in Things, Silence and the Sublime

IV.v.Nurturing Economy of Feelings, and Phobia of Feelings in Work of Writing

IV.vi.Conclusion

Chapter V　Theatricality of Moral Sentiments,Institutions of Sympathy, and Adam Smith:Empire and the Coming of the Unconscious

V.i.Adam Smith Problem, His System-Building and the Impossible of the Chinese

V.ii.Visuality in a Distended Selfhood

V.iii.Sentimental Labor and Sympathetic Communication

V.iv.Property and Propriety in Making Inferiority

V.v.Sentimental Humanity and a Stadial European History

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Chapter VI　Specters of Crowds in Late Qing Print Culture:Nationalism, Subjectivity and the Rise of Modern Chinese Textual Media

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