Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
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Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion

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Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion

About this book

Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for investigating the intersection of body and mind that late Middle English literatures evoke. While medieval studies has generated a rich scholarly literature on 'affective piety', this collection charts an intersectional new investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious contexts. From Geoffrey Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, and from practices of witnessing to the adoration of objects, essays in this volume analyze the coexistence of emotion and affect in late medieval representations of feeling.

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Yes, you can access Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion by Glenn D. Burger,Holly A. Crocker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Letteratura & Critica letteraria inglese. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Weeping Like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory
  11. Chapter 2 Imagining Jewish Affect in the Siege of Jerusalem
  12. Chapter 3 Engendering Affect in Hoccleve’s Series
  13. Chapter 4 Becoming One Flesh, Inhabiting Two Genders: Ugly Feelings and Blocked Emotion in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
  14. Chapter 5 Accounting for Affect in the Reeve’s Tale
  15. Chapter 6 Affect Machines
  16. Chapter 7 Witnessing and Legal Affect in the York Trial Plays
  17. Chapter 8 Affecting Forms: Theorizing with the Palis of Honoure
  18. Afterword: Three Letters
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index