Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The politics of affect
  • Marketing affect: the nineteenth-century sensation novel
  • Theorizing affect: twentieth-century mass culture criticism
  • Detective in the House: subversion and containment in Lady Audley's Secret
  • Ghostlier determinations: the economy of sensation and the Woman in White
  • Crying for power: East Lynne and maternal melodrama
  • The inside story: on sympathy in Daniel Deronda
  • Marx's Capital and the mystery of the commodity.