The erotics of grief : emotions and the construction of privilege in the medieval Mediterranean / Megan Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Megan, 1977- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Themes, motives.

Grief in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Grief--Social aspects--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Grief.

Elite (Social sciences)--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Elite (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'The Erotics of Grief' considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities.

Contents:

Introduction : Desire & Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities

Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages

Widows and the Romance of Grief

Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice

Towards a Mediterranean Erotics of Grief.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501758416

1501758411

OCLC:

1243028598