This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.

1. Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture; Heather Kerr, David Lemmings and Robert Phiddian2. Psychological Perspectives on Emotion in Groups; W. Gerrod Parrott3. The Emotional Contents of Swift's saeva indignatio; Robert Phiddian4. 'Love, Marriages, Mistresses, and the like': Daniel Defoe's Scandal Club and an Emotional Community in Print; Jean McBain5. Eliza Haywood's Progress through the Passions; Aleksondra Hultquist6. That 'Tremendous' Mr. Dennis: the Sublime, Common Sense and Criticism; Kathrine Cuccuru7. Adam Smith and the Theater in Moral Sentiments; Laura J. Rosenthal8. 'Off Dropped the Sympathetic Snout': Shame, Sympathy and Plastic Surgery at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century; Emily Cock9. 'Acting it as she reads': Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe; Amelia Dale10. Framing Suicidal Emotions in the English Popular Press, 1750-1780; Eric Parisot11. Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-lines in Hutcheson's Account of Moral Sentiment; Glen Pettigrove12. Anatomist and Painter: Hume's Struggles as a Sentimental Stylist; Michael L. Frazer13. Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire and the Translation of Homer 1675-1720; Conal Condren