Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-296) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The "affective fallacy" fallacy -- "The zest, the tingle, the excitement of reality" -- Statistical pity: Elsie Venner and the controversy over childbed fever -- Fear and epistemology: tracking the train of feeling in A mortal antipathy -- Nervous effort: Gilman, Crane, and the psychophysical pathologies of everyday life -- "Mindless" pleasure: embodies music in The awakening and Theron Ware -- Corporeal wonder: the occult entrancements of The wings of the dove.