Medieval affect, feeling, and emotion / edited by Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burger, Glenn, 1954- editor.

Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971- editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 107.

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in literature.

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Weeping like a beaten child : figurative language and the emotions in Chaucer and Malory / Stephanie Trigg

Imagining Jewish affect in the Siege of Jerusalem / Patricia DeMarco

Engendering affect in Hoccleve's Series / Holly A. Crocker

Becoming one flesh, inhabiting two genders : ugly feelings and blocked emotion in the Wife of Bath's prologue and tale / Accounting for affect in the Reeve's tale / Brantley L. Bryant

Affect machines / Sarah Salih

Witnessing and legal affect in the York trial plays / Emma Lipton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108471961

110847196X

OCLC:

1089861885