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Intro -- The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Affect and Texts: Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Context -- General Introduction -- Conceptualizing and Exploring Affect (1): Overview of Pre-Modern Inquiry -- Archaic Legacies -- Affect and the West's Axial Turn: Plato to Augustine -- Affectivity, Sociality, and Poetry's Defense: Aristotle and Classical Humanism -- Conceptualizing Affect in Classical Indian and Islamic Aesthetics -- High Medieval Revalorizing of Affect and Its Cultural Politics -- Reformation Ambivalence Toward the Heart and Its Understanding -- Conceptualizing and Exploring Affect (2): Bifurcation in Modern Western Reflection -- Of Science and System: From Descartes to Structuralism -- Affect in Early Modern Philosophy -- Affect in Enlightenment Irony and Eighteenth-Century Satire -- Nineteenth-Century Historicizing of Affect: Comte and Spencer -- Affect and Behaviorism -- Affect Within Neo-Kantian Developmental Psychology and Structuralism -- Affect, Marxist Ideology Critique, and Behaviorist Structuralism -- Of Interiority, Sense, and Subversive Authority: From Inwardness to Authenticity -- Ecumenical Humanism's Recovery of Deep Sociality -- Affect in Puritan Self-Examination and Moral Sense Philosophy -- Mundane Sociality and Affectivity from Romanticism to Phenomenology -- The Emergence of Neurocognitive-Evolutionary Theory and Affect Studies -- Poststructuralist Consolidation and Its Fraying -- Neurocognitive-Evolutionary Accounts of Affect and Their Interdisciplinary Reach -- Affect Theory's Genealogies and Permutations -- Bibliography -- Part I Contexts and Foci -- Chapter 2 Affect and Emotion: James, Dewey, Tomkins, Damasio, Massumi, Spinoza The Circuitry of Emotion -- Reading Massumi Reading James -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Affect Studies and Cognitive Approaches to Literature -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature -- Affect Studies -- Varieties of Affect Studies -- Whither the Connection? -- Entangled Affect and Cognition? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Bio-Cultural Evolution of Language and Prosocial Emotions -- Prosocial Emotions -- Prosocial Emotions and Mimetic Practices Before the Emergence of Language -- Prosociality and Early Language Use Among H. Sapiens -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Trust in Theater -- Trust, Virtue, Affect: Psychogenetic and Environmental Designs -- Blind Man's Bluff at Dover Cliff -- Blind Benediction: A Coda on Social Trust -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Social Identity: Categorization, Cognition, and Affect -- Personal, Practical, and Categorial Identity -- Categorization -- Social Identity Categorization: Varieties and Problems -- Resolving Conflicts of Identity Categorization -- Interpersonal Attitudes -- Emotional Responses -- Cognition: Thinking About Identity Groups -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Affective Aversion, Ethics, and Fiction -- Competing Lines of Flight: Philosophy, Embodiment, and Affect -- Affect, Disgust, and Ethics -- Empathy, Affective Attunement, and Ethics -- Plasticity, Empathy, and Fiction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Affect and Narratology -- Introduction -- Having a Good Cry: Foregrounding Affect in Feminist Narratology -- Cognitive and Neuroscientific Uses of Affect -- In Excess of Narrative Form? Deleuzian Notions of Affect -- Affective Narrative Assemblages: A Syncretic Proposal -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 The Turn to Affect: Emotions Without Subjects, Causality Without Demonstrable Cause -- Affects Without Subjects and Contagion as the Engine of the Social Passions with Subjects and Looking as the Means to the Social -- Emotions with Subjects and with Social Emotions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Are There States of Mind Which We Can Call "Inner Sensuousness"? -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Affect and Intention in Rhetoric and Poetics -- Narrative Intention as "Phantasia" -- Argumentative Intention as Belief -- Belief and Reason -- The Poetics and Reason -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II Affectivity and Textuality -- Chapter 12 Empathy and Love: Types of Textuality and Degrees of Affectivity -- Feeling Empathy for Fictional Others -- Empathy: Reality and Fiction, an Introduction -- Zooming In: Coherence and Affective Investment-Epic and Novel -- Zooming Out: Synthetizing Human Experiences-Epic and Novel -- Imitating the Emotion of Fictional Others (Romantic Love) -- Love's Literary Reflectivity (Symptoms and Duration): An Introduction -- Mirroring, Transgressing, and Idealization: Medieval Poetry -- Social Bounds and Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Romanticism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 "That's Deep!": The Role of Being Moved and Feelings of Profundity in the Appreciation of Serious Narratives -- Two Ways of Engaging with Sad Narratives: Hedonic vs. Eudaimonic Motivations -- The "Paradox of Sad-Film Enjoyment" -- Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations in the Enjoyment and Appreciation of Fictions -- Pleasure-Seeking and Meaningfulness-Seeking -- Eudaimonic Emotions: From Tender Feelings and Elevation to "Being Moved" -- Eudaimonic Gratification and "Tender Feelings" -- Elevation as an Eudaimonic Emotion -- Being Moved as an Eudaimonic Emotion -- Being Moved: A Proper Characterization -- "Being Moved' in Ordinary Language -- Is "Being Moved" a Positive or a Mixed Emotion? -- "Being negatively moved" vs. "being positively moved" "Being Positively Moved" as a Distinct Emotion -- Being Moved, Important Positive Values, and Eudaimonic Gratification -- "That's Deep!": Being Moved and Feelings of Profundity -- References -- Chapter 14 The Priority of Form: Kenneth Burke and the Rediscovery of Affect and Rhetoric -- The Priority of Form -- Arranging Affect: Burke's Rediscovery of Rhetoric -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15 Tragedy "Before" Pity and Fear -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16 Narrative and Affect in Epic, Romance, and the Novel -- Divine Arousal and Human Regulation of Affect in Epic: Spirit, Shame, Pity, Sense -- From Epic to Romance: Reformative Affectivity and Narrating the Heart's Understanding -- From Comic-Epic Poem in Prose to the Novel: Affect and Witnessing in Modernity -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Empathy's Neglected Cousin: How Narratives Shape Our Sympathy -- Empathy or Sympathy? Some Essential Differences -- Why We Are Wary of Empathy and Sympathy: Some Ethical Concerns -- A Poetics of Narrative Sympathy -- The Role of Aesthetic Distance -- Narrative Progression, "Rhetorical Control" and Reader Judgment -- Reader Judgment, Sympathy, and Ethics -- Final Observations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18 Laurence Sterne's "Poor Maria" as Model of Empathic Response -- Genotype and Phenotype -- Familiarity with Object of Empathy -- The Object's Appeal to Empathy -- The Subject's Affective State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19 Film and Affect, Theories Entwined: The Case of the War Genre in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Speilberg, 1998) -- Film as a "Machine for Generating Affect" -- Of and in the Body -- Sympathetic vs. Direct Emotion (or Affect): Horror's Terror and Shock -- Narrative Consequences: Protagonist Divergence and Collective Protagonist -- More Trouble with/for Identification: Suspense as Curiosity -- Bibliography Part III Varieties of Affective/Textual Interplay -- Chapter 20 Medieval English Texts and Affects: Narratives as Tools for Feeling -- Emotions, Narrative, and Empathy -- Emotion in Old English Texts -- Emotion in Middle English Texts -- Medieval Affective Poetics -- Bibliography -- Chapter 21 Rhythmic Cognition in Late Medieval Lyrics: BL MS Harley 2253 -- Metrical Cross-Purposes and Apophatic Piety -- Lyrical Theory and Medieval Lyricism in Cultural Context -- The Textual/Cultural Peculiarities of the Harley Manuscript -- Meta-Poetic Metrical Playfulness in Service of Apophatic Unknowing -- Intensifying Contrafacta Ambiguities -- Expectancy Violations and the Affective Re-Ordering of Perception -- Metrical Puzzles and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Their Resolution -- The Theology of Metrical Irresolution in the Harley Manuscript -- Bibliography -- Chapter 22 A Wild Fable: Affect and Reception of Fernando de Rojas' Celestina (1499) -- Introduction -- Nota Bene on the Contemporaneous-Contemporary Methodology -- Genres and Communities of Readers -- Two Genres: The Humanistic Comedy and the Sentimental Romance -- Intended Readership and University Circles -- Didacticism (Part I): The Sentimental Romance and the Educated Youth -- Didacticism (Part II): The Lay Readers -- Celestina and Vives' "Passions" -- Negativity Bias and the Tragic Paradox -- On Being Moved by Celestina: A Tragic and Violent Story -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 23 Don Quixote's Affective Thoughts -- Thought and Feeling -- Theory of Mind -- Cervantes and Don Quixote -- Thinking Characters -- The Thinking Knight-Errant -- Don Quixote's Affective Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Chapter 24 Descartes, Emotions and the Inner Life of the Subject -- Exploring a New Realm -- The Pilot and the Ship -- Affects and Judgment -- Imagination, Dreams, and Emotions -- Bibliography Chapter 25 "The History and Science of Feeling": Wordsworth's Affective Poetics, Then and Now
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