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Description based upon print version of record Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Sympathy and State Finance in the Romantic Era; II. The System of State Finance and the Methodologies of Literary Criticism; Financial Capitalism; Social Systems; Affect; III. Overview of the Book; 1.Finance and the exchange of passions: The originsof the collective imagination; I. Imagination,the Hierarchy of Faculties, and Closed Social Systems; II. Imagination, Social Systems, andIntersubjectivity in Early Eighteenth-Century Financial Discourse III. Periodicals, Communication, and Conceptual MutationIV. Imagination After the South Sea Company: Disciplinarity , Hume, and Sympathy; Sympathy, system, and faction in Hume's Treatise; Faction, justice, and the gift of affect; A new tye: Sympathy, justice, and the founding convention; Speculation, time consciousness, and sympathy; The womb of time and Hume's investments in literary form; Conclusion: Systems, Ideology, and Time Consciousness; 2. The violence of system: Rousseau and Smith on identification and sympathy I. Haptopraxology: Rousseau On Imagination, Speculation, and IdentificationRepresentation and energetic identification; Presence, narration, and intensity; Literary form and systems of communication; II. The General Disposition to Exchange: Smith on Sympathy and Debt; Sympathy, the dead, and the gold standard; Resentment, the dread of death and social order; Genre, system, and The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Coda: Afffective, Imaginary, and Symbolic Identification; 3. Antislavery poetry and the speculativesubject; I. Literary Formand the Question of a System of Antislavery Poetry II. The Supplements ofForm: Sympathy, Motherhood, EmpireIII. Antislavery Verse,The Powers of the Future, and State Finance; IV. The Failure of System: The Case of Cowper's Antislavery Verse; V. Yearsley: The Crafty Merchant and the Destructive System; Conclusion: Finance, Anticipation, and the Virtual; 4. Systems and the parasite: Wordsworth and the financial crisis of 1797; I. Wordsworth, Debt, and the Parasite; II. Gifts and Beggars: Wordsworth and the Origins of Public Credit; III. Gift, Compulsion, and the Image of Tranquillity: The Bank Restriction Act IV. Drawing from the Dead: The Ruined Cottage and "The Pedlar"Gold, wages, and army finance; Sympathy, death, and the image of tranquillity; Mineralization and entwining; V. Profitable Sympathies: Parasites and Indentification in Lyrical Ballads, 1798-1802; Conclusion: The Parasite and literary Criticism; 5.The ghost of gold: National debt, imagery, and the politics of sympathy in P. B. Shelley; I. Sympathy and Reform in Shelley's Early Prose; II. Determinations of the Will: Sympathy and Time-Consciousness III. State Finance, Time Consciousness, and the Sentiment of Necessity in a Philosophical View of Reform |
