The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526116918)

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.

Author: Richard Meek
ISBN-10: 152611691X
ISBN-13: 9781526116918
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d