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Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture / edited by Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Positive psychology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good feelings in the Renaissance.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Rewriting discourses of pleasure
- 1 Happy Hamlet
- 2 Therapeutic laughter in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
- 3 The pleasure of the text: reading and happiness in Rabelais and Montaigne
- 4 Pleasure and the ‘rustic life’
- II Imagining happy communities
- 5 The theology of cheer, Erasmus to Shakespeare
- 6 ‘My crown is called content’: positive, negative, and political affects in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy
- 7 Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex circle
- 8 Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor
- III Forms, attachment, and ambivalence
- 9 Happy objects and earthly pleasure in Thomas Traherne’s devotional poetry
- 10 Trust and disgust: the precariousness of positive emotions in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
- 11 ‘My heart is satisfied’: revenge, justice, and satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy
- 12 All’s Well That Ends Well? Happiness, ambivalence, and story genre
- Afterword
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 12, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526166708
- 1526166704
- 9781526137142
- 1526137143
- OCLC:
- 1248900371
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