Gender, affect, and emotion from classical to early modern literature : afterlives of the Nightingale's song

Gender, affect, and emotion from classical to early modern literature : afterlives of the Nightingale's song / Marion A. Wells.

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. More specifically, t...

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Main Author: Wells, Marion A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
Subjects:
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Classical literature > History and criticism.
European letters > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
European literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Nightingales Song: Affective Crisis and the Feminine Cry in Virgils Aeneid and Ovids 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 Shakespeares The Winters Tale
  • Chapter 6: The Tears of Rachel: Lament and Affective Improvisation in Mary Careys Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Poems.

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