Uncomfortable Situations
Emotion between Science and the Humanities
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Uncomfortable Situations
Chapter 1 Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Chapter 2 Bearing Up in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Chapter 3 Hostile Environments in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest
Chapter 4 Mixed Feelings in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Epilogue Irreconcilable Differences?
(With Stephanie Preston)
Notes
Index
Introduction Uncomfortable Situations
Chapter 1 Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Chapter 2 Bearing Up in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Chapter 3 Hostile Environments in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest
Chapter 4 Mixed Feelings in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Epilogue Irreconcilable Differences?
(With Stephanie Preston)
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
William M. Reddy, author of The Making of Romantic Love
“Gross is the go-to figure if one wants a thinker who refuses to compromise with reductionistic accounts (of the ‘Basic Emotions’ or ‘consilience’ varieties), but does not, for all that, refuse dialog. In Uncomfortable Situations he demonstrates convincingly that we can save the richness of texts without ruling out the potential of experimental methods.”
Jonathan Kramnick, author of Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson
“Gross’s Uncomfortable Situations is a superlative achievement of interdisciplinary scholarship. Uncompromising in its commitment to the literary and rhetorical humanities, Gross takes on board the latest research on the neuroscience of emotion and situated cognition and puts the two into productive, sometimes uncomfortable dialogue. The result is non-reductionist cognitive literary study of the highest order. It should be read by everyone with an interest in the history of the emotions, in eighteenth-century sentimental and Gothic literature, and in the ecological humanities.”
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Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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