Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion

ISBN-13: 9781108471961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Glenn D. Burger; Holly A. Crocker

Opis

This collection conducts an intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious late Middle English literatures. From Geoffrey Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, eight chapters by leading scholars examine the coexistence of emotion and affect in Late Medieval representations of feeling.

Recenzje

'… excellent collection …' Barbara Zimbalist, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Spis treści

Introduction Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker; 1. Weeping like a beaten child: figurative language and the emotions in Chaucer and Malory Stephanie Trigg; 2. Imagining Jewish affect in the Siege of Jerusalem Patricia DeMarco; 3. Engendering affect in Hoccleve's Series Holly A. Crocker; 4. Becoming one flesh, inhabiting two genders: ugly feelings and blocked emotion in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale Glenn D. Burger; 5. Accounting for affect in the Reeve's Tale Brantley L. Bryant; 6. Affect machines Sarah Salih; 7. Witnessing and legal affect in the York Trial plays Emma Lipton; 8. Affecting forms: theorizing with The Palis of Honoure Anke Bernau; Afterword: three letters Anthony Bale.