The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies. The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. They demonstrate that the once stable concept of emotion disintegrates in the course of re-evaluation and is replaced by such notions as affects, passions, feelings and emotions. This volume examines the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose from the anonymous Court of Love (ca....

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural production of emotions. The 17 articles examine how emotions are represented and produced in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies.