James Noggle is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing and The Skeptical Sublime. He also edits the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Noggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such.(Eighteenth-Century Fiction) James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book.(Modern Language Quarterly) Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory.(Eighteenth-Century Studies)

• Introduction: Unfelt Affect1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility2.2. External and Invisible2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney2.4. Austen as Coda3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography3.3. Gibbon in History3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling4. Political Economy: Moving with Money4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness4.2. Feeling Untaxed4.3. The Money Flow4.4. Invisible versus InsensibleEpilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology

James Noggle is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing and The Skeptical Sublime. He also edits the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Noggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such.(Eighteenth-Century Fiction) James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book.(Modern Language Quarterly) Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory.(Eighteenth-Century Studies)

• Introduction: Unfelt Affect1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility2.2. External and Invisible2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney2.4. Austen as Coda3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography3.3. Gibbon in History3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling4. Political Economy: Moving with Money4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness4.2. Feeling Untaxed4.3. The Money Flow4.4. Invisible versus InsensibleEpilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology

James Noggle is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing and The Skeptical Sublime. He also edits the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Noggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such.(Eighteenth-Century Fiction) James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book.(Modern Language Quarterly) Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory.(Eighteenth-Century Studies)

• Introduction: Unfelt Affect1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility2.2. External and Invisible2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney2.4. Austen as Coda3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography3.3. Gibbon in History3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling4. Political Economy: Moving with Money4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness4.2. Feeling Untaxed4.3. The Money Flow4.4. Invisible versus InsensibleEpilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology