Reading One's Own Mind: Hazlitt, Cognition, Fiction

Savarese, John

doi:10.1080/10509585.2013.807968

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“…For some examples of how Romantic writers put this sort of social cognition theory to counterintuitive work, see Mark J. Bruhn, “Shelley's Theory of Mind” and John Savarese, “Reading One's Own Mind: Hazlitt, Cognition, Fiction.” Among studies of social cognition and the novel, Alan Palmer's Fictional Minds and Social Minds in the Novel are perhaps the most attuned the ways that novels open up alternative models of the mind, less inward and detection‐oriented than socially embedded and intersubjective.…”

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Social minds in Romanticism

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2017

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This essay examines how recoveries of Romantic sociability have led to a renewed focus on the social mind, a subject of intense interest in Romantic‐era politics and science. The essay first traces the shift from Romantic scholarship's recovery of “the social” to more recent approaches to social networks. The second section examines how studies of sensibility and affect have enabled new work on Romantic empiricism. The final section points to some recent work that reframes Romantic empiricism, and the very question of the social encounter, in ways that suggest future directions for philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic approaches to the social mind.

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Escape from Self

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“Some Powerful Rankling Passion”

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The article considers how Joanna Baillie’s concept of “sympathetick curiosity” informs contemporary discussions about emotion regulation. By focusing on Baillie’s De Monfort (1798) and Orra (1812), the article argues that regulatory flexibility is a learned skill that can be improved by actively engaging sympathetic curiosity. Baillie insisted that her plays had pedagogical value and that having audiences watch them would help them learn how to avoid the destructive nature of the passions. Working with Bonanno and Burton’s (2013) model of regulatory flexibility, the article demonstrates the importance not just of inherent differences in emotion regulation but also of learning opportunities individuals engage to develop it. In particular, the article presents a model of how people learn through narrative simulation, drawing on the work of Romantic writers and current critics as well as cognitive psychologists and neuropsychologists. Consideration is then given to how watching protagonists’ manifestations of and responses to an unfolding passion helps audiences learn to develop their regulatory flexibility.

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Reading One's Own Mind: Hazlitt, Cognition, Fiction

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Social minds in Romanticism

Social minds in Romanticism

Escape from Self

“Some Powerful Rankling Passion”

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