Chapter I Sentiment and Its Inward Turn around the 1740s
Chapter II Rhetoric and the Rise of Modern Aesthetics: Emotions in Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry 33
Chapter III Practicing Passions: David Hume and His Philosophy in Writing
Chapter IV Poetic Mediality and Feminine Sentiments in William Wordsworth's Early Poems: Gender, Modern Literature, and Textual Mediation
Chapter V Theatricality of Moral Sentiments, Institutions of Sympathy, and Adam Smith: Empire and the Coming of the Unconscious
Chapter VI Specters of Crowds in Late Qing Print Culture: Nationalism, Subjectivity and the Rise of Modem Chinese Textual Media
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