Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song

AvMarion A. Wells

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emotive speech in literary texts from the classical to the early modern periods.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:533 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
Antal sidor:309
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031277207

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Marion A. Wells is Henry N. Hudson Professor of English at Middlebury College, USA. Her previous publications include The Secret Wound: Love Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (Stanford UP, 2007).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: From Passive Matter to Embodied Affects: Gendering Emotion in the Classical Tradition.-Chapter 2 :Towards an Early Modern Affect Theory: Christian Stoicism and the Augustinian Will in Medieval and Early Modern Thought.- Chapter 3: The Nightingale’s Song: Affective Crisis and the Feminine Cry in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.- Chapter 4: “In Her Swough”: Thwarted Affect and the Maternal Body in Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pisan .- Chapter 5: The Return of the Shrew: Sibylline Rage in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.- Chapter 6: The Tears of Rachel: Lament and Affective Improvisation in Mary Carey’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Poems.