Theatricality of Writing and Emotion in the Eighteenth Century British Print Culture: David Hume and the Making of Literary Career

JIANG Wentao

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JIANG Wentao. Theatricality of Writing and Emotion in the Eighteenth Century British Print Culture: David Hume and the Making of Literary Career[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(2): 197-215.

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JIANG Wentao. Theatricality of Writing and Emotion in the Eighteenth Century British Print Culture: David Hume and the Making of Literary Career[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(2): 197-215.

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Theatricality of Writing and Emotion in the Eighteenth Century British Print Culture: David Hume and the Making of Literary Career

JIANG Wentao

Zhejiang University

Received Date: 2017-10-19
Rev Recd Date: 2018-04-10

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Abstract

The eighteenth century Britain witnessed a proliferation of modern print culture, which gives rise to the modern institution of the production of literary writing. David Hume and his moral philosophy writing are part of this mechanism in the making. This essay examines the transition of his treatise writing to essay writing as part of his maneuver of literary publications. It presents a history of materiality in writing through an investigation of its institutionalization, its dovetailing with the formation of modern theatrical selfhood, and a possible perceptual history of emotions in the genealogy of modern western subjectivity.
- print culture,
- emotion,
- theatricality,
- David Hume

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