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The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Richard Meek
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Description for The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Paperback. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Editor(s): Meek, Richard; Sullivan, Erin. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which early modern texts explore emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine. The chapters in the book seek to demonstrate how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of emotion could be. Taken individually, the chapters offer much-needed investigations into previously overlooked areas of emotional experience and signification; taken together, they offer a thorough re-evaluation of the cultural priorities and phenomenological principles that shaped the understanding of the emotive self in this period. -- .
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116918
SKU
V9781526116918
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99-15
About Richard Meek
Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham -- .
Reviews for The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
'The Renaissance of Emotion seeks to broaden our frame of reference, locating early modern emotions within a wider cultural framework of religion, philosophy, politics, and rhetoric.' Katharine A. Craik, Oxford Brookes University, Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (Winter 2016) 'An important collection of essays that can stand as a survey-sample of some of the best work currently being done in the field. The thoughtful and carefully argued introduction offers a historiographical overview of the rise to prominence of the emotions in philosophy, psychology and literary studies, challenges some of the established critical orthodoxies, and opens some avenues into new research.' Freya Sierhuis (York), Bucherschau 'Every well-crafted essay has something genuinely original to offer and which is indeed taking discussion forward.' Lesel Dawson is a senior lecturer at in the department of English at Bristol University. Eric Langley is a lecturer in the department of English at University College London, Early Theatre 20.1
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