Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 4/11/2019
EAN 9781108471961, ISBN10: 110847196X

Hardcover, 264 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm
Language: English

Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for investigating the intersection of body and mind that late Middle English literatures evoke. While medieval studies has generated a rich scholarly literature on 'affective piety', this collection charts an intersectional new investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious contexts. From Geoffrey Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, and from practices of witnessing to the adoration of objects, essays in this volume analyze the coexistence of emotion and affect in late medieval representations of feeling.

Introduction Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker
1. Weeping like a beaten child
figurative language and the emotions in Chaucer and Malory Stephanie Trigg
2. Imagining Jewish affect in the Siege of Jerusalem Patricia DeMarco
3. Engendering affect in Hoccleve's Series Holly A. Crocker
4. Becoming one flesh, inhabiting two genders
ugly feelings and blocked emotion in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale Glenn D. Burger
5. Accounting for affect in the Reeve's Tale Brantley L. Bryant
6. Affect machines Sarah Salih
7. Witnessing and legal affect in the York Trial plays Emma Lipton
8. Affecting forms
theorizing with The Palis of Honoure Anke Bernau
Afterword
three letters Anthony Bale.