Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice

1. Introduction: A Feel for the Text, Stephen Ahern.- Part I Feeling Early Modern.- 2. The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity, Wan-Chuan Kao.- 3. (Non-)Belief in Things: Affect Theory and A New Literary Materialism, Neil Vallelly.- 4. Semblances of Affect in the Early English Novel: Narrating Intensity, Joel P. Sodano.- Part II Affective Transmissions, Romantic to Victorian.- 5. Reading and the Sociality of Disappointing Affects in Jane Austen, Carmen Faye Mathes.- 6. Shame and its Affects: The Form–Content Implosion of Shelley’s The Cenci, Merrilees Roberts.- 7. Bodily Sympathy, Affect, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, Tara MacDonald.- 8. Feeling Other(s): Dracula and the Ethics of Unmanageable Affect, Kimberly O’Donnell.- Part III Modernist Contingencies: Engaging the Ineffable.- 9. Glad Animals: Speed, Affect, and Modern Literature, Katherine G. Sutherland.- 10. Senses without Names: Affective Becomings in William Faulkner and Carson McCullers, Jill Marsden.- Part IV Bodies Write Back: Attending to Affect in Contemporary Writing.- 11. Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature and its Affective Flights, Jamie Rogers.- 12. On Good Listening, Postcritique, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Affective Testimony, Tobias Skiveren.- 13. Feeling Nature, Reconsidered: Ecocriticism, Affect, and the Case of H is for Hawk, Lisa Ottum.