Facing up to the history of emotions

Facing up to the history of emotions / Stephanie Downes, Stephanie Trigg, editors.

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best 'face up' to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about work that might yet be...

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Other Authors: Downes, Stephanie (Editor), Trigg, Stephanie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Subjects:
Emotions in literature.
Emotions > Sociological aspects.
Emotions > Early works to 1850.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Facing Up to the History of Emotions
  • 2. Reading faces: how did late medieval Europeans interpret emotions in faces?
  • 3. Gower's blushing bird, Philomela's transforming face
  • 4. Mirthful faces in The Name of the Rose
  • 5. The redemptive power of the face: from Beatrice (Portinari) to Bérénice (Bejo)
  • 6. The grins of others: Figuring ethnic difference in medieval facial expressions
  • 7. Phenomenal pain: Embodying the Passion in the Life of Elizabeth of Spalbeek
  • 8. Emotions in history and literature
  • 9. Erratum to: Mediating meanings: conservation of the Staffordshire Hoard.

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