Introduction

a feel for the text

Stephen Ahern

1-21

The body in wonder

affective suspension and medieval queer futurity

Wan-Chuan Kao

25-43

(Non-)belief in things

affect theory and a new literary materialism

Neil Vallelly

45-63

Semblances of affect in the early English novel

narrating intensity

Joel P. Sodano

65-82

Reading and the sociality of disappointing affects in Jane Austen

Carmen Faye Mathes

85-103

Shame and its affects

the form–content implosion of Shelley's the Cenci

Merrilees Roberts

105-120

Bodily sympathy, affect, and Victorian sensation fiction

Tara Macdonald

121-137

Glad animals

speed, affect, and modern literature

Katherine G. Sutherland

161-182

Senses without names

affective becomings in William Faulkner and Carson Mccullers

Jill Marsden

183-197

Invisible memories

black feminist literature and its affective flights

201-216

On good listening, postcritique, and Ta-nehisi Coates' affective testimony

Tobias Skiveren

217-233

Feeling nature, reconsidered

ecocriticism, affect, and the case of H is for hawk

Lisa Ottum

235-249