Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture /

"What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth, solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fox, Cora (Editor ), Irish, Bradley J. (Editor ), Miura, Cassie M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Temas:
1450-1600
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
European literature > Renaissance
Emotions in literature
Shakespeare.
affect theory.
early modern.
embodiment.
happiness.
history of emotion.
humoralism.
mirth.
renaissance.
wellbeing.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Rewriting discourses of pleasure
  • 1 Happy Hamlet
  • 2 Therapeutic laughter in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • 3 The pleasure of the text: reading and happiness in Rabelais and Montaigne
  • 4 Pleasure and the 'rustic life'
  • II Imagining happy communities
  • 5 The theology of cheer, Erasmus to Shakespeare
  • 6 'My crown is called content': positive, negative, and political affects in Shakespeare's first tetralogy
  • 7 Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex circle
  • 8 Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor
  • III Forms, attachment, and ambivalence
  • 9 Happy objects and earthly pleasure in Thomas Traherne's devotional poetry
  • 10 Trust and disgust: the precariousness of positive emotions in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
  • 11 'My heart is satisfied': revenge, justice, and satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy
  • 12 All's Well That Ends Well? Happiness, ambivalence, and story genre
  • Afterword
  • Index

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