The Renaissance of Emotion

Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Herausgeber: Meek, Richard; Sullivan, Erin

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Produktbeschreibung

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. While such scholarship has been important in foregrounding questions related to historical phenomenology and embodiment, it has obscured the extent to which other intellectual and creative frameworks - including religion, philosophy, rhetoric and drama - also shaped cultural beliefs about emotion in the period. The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries explored emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine. Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, the volume demonstrates how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of early modern 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 the early modern period. The Renaissance of emotion will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the history of emotion, theatre and cultural history, and the history of ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090783
• ISBN-10: 0719090784
• Artikelnr.: 42375844

Autorenporträt

Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Richard Meek and Erin Sullivan Part I
The theology and philosophy of emotion 1: The passions of Thomas Wright: Renaissance emotion across body and soul
Erin Sullivan 2: 'The scripture moveth us in sundry places': framing biblical emotions in the Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies
David Bagchi 3: 'This was a way to thrive': Christian and Jewish eudaimonism in The Merchant of Venice
Sara Coodin 4: Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei
Mary Ann Lund Part II
Shakespeare and the language of emotion 5: Spleen in Shakespeare's comedies
Nigel Wood 6: 'Rue even for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy
Richard Meek 7: What's happiness in Hamlet?
Richard Chamberlain Part 3
The performance of emotion 8: 'They that tread in a maze': movement as emotion in John Lyly
Andy Kesson 9: (S)wept from power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III
Ann Kaegi 10: The affective scripts of early modern execution and murder
Frederika Bain 11: Discrepant emotional awareness in Shakespeare
R. S. White and Ciara Rawnsley Afterword
Peter Holbrook Index