{"product_id":"9798216485278","title":"Emotion's Empire Colonial Attachment, Grievability and Self-Preservation in Anglo-Atlantic Literature, 1688–1847","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEmotion's Empire\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColonial Attachment, Grievability and Self-Preservation in Anglo-Atlantic Literature, 1688–1847\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCaroline Koegler\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis expansive intersectional study examines how empire was encoded affectively in literary texts over the course of the long 18th century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on affect theory, the history of emotions, as well as decolonial and feminist scholarship, this open access study offers three interlocking core concepts – colonial attachment, grievability, and self-preservation – to illuminate how literary texts sustained and occasionally disrupted the emotional logics of empire across different transatlantic contexts. By intertwining “empire” and “emotion,” \u003ci\u003eEmotion's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e opens up practices of reading beyond traditional conceptual boundaries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRe-situating the \"grateful slave\" trope as part of a larger \"colonial attachment narrative,\" Caroline Koegler broadens understanding of the trope's place within an overarching affective system shaped by imperial patriarchy. Similarly, the concept \"affective coverture\" is introduced to explore how women's normalized legal inferiority – encapsulated in Blackstone's concept of legal\u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003ecoverture\" – translated into the comparative importance or unimportance of some characters' feelings and well-being. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eEmotion's Empire \u003c\/i\u003etraces normative ways in which these types of affective allocation and integration unfold, it remains attentive to those moments in a narrative that diverge from or question imperial affective conventions, or carry them into new contexts thereby adding to their proliferation or shifting their dynamics and effects. Indeed, this book teases out how intricately and at times how unevenly or seemingly paradoxically literary texts negotiate imperial affect, reflecting empire's adaptability to different contexts and different agendas during this crucial time in literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreie Universität Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCaroline Koegler \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Global Literature and its Media at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and her publications include \u003ci\u003eCritical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eLocating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216485278\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52224056230028,"sku":"9798216485278","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798216485278","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}