Foundations of Feeling

Theorizing Emotions in Late Medieval Literature

AvJessica Rosenfeld

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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A fresh reading of medieval literature as deeply concerned with thinking about feelings. Are emotions primarily bodily or cognitive? Do “natural” emotions exist? What is the relationship between emotion and gender? In Foundations of Feeling, Jessica Rosenfeld shows how medieval literature informs contemporary ideas about how emotions operate. Ranging widely from love poetry to pastoral and theological writings, to political satire and more, Rosenfeld reveals a wealth of attention to emotions in both scientific and philosophical discourses of the time. By mining Latin, medieval French, and Middle English traditions, she relates medieval concerns to the most central, current debates (and impasses) in the fields of history of emotion and affect theory today, reframing how we think about and define feelings.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-19
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226850498

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Pedagogik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Jessica Rosenfeld is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her books include Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle.

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“Foundations of Feeling reveals the connections between literature and philosophy, between gender, affect, ethics, and politics. In the sometimes-difficult space of incommensurability provided and constituted by literary works, readers may imagine possibilities and find resources for ethical and political change. Rosenfeld’s work is theoretically ambitious and imaginative, grounded in insightful and sensitive analyses of examples drawn from a wide range of texts, genres, periods, and sociolinguistic contexts.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Theorizing Emotions: Causes, Nature, Taxonomies, Gender1. Languages of Feeling, 1100–1500Interlude. Changing Emotions2. Sudden Love: On Desire and Emotional Freedom3. Just Feeling: Natural Law and the Nature of EmotionsInterlude. Categorical Emotions4, Envious Charity: Taxonomies of Feeling and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales5. Gendering Women: Singularity and Community in the Fifteenth CenturyCoda. The Mixed Emotional LifeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex