Affect theory and early modern texts politics, ecologies, and form / Amanda Bailey ; Mario DiGangi, editors.

Other author Bailey, Amanda, 1966-
Other author DiGangi, Mario.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Descriptionxiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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SeriesPalgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism
Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
Contents Introduction / Amanda Bailey and Mario DiGangi -- . Embodying the political. Speak what we feel: sympathy and statecraft / Amanda Bailey -- Affective entanglements and alternative histories / Mario DiGangi -- Affective ecologies and environments. Weird Otium / Julian Yates -- Self-killing and the matter of affect in Bacon and Spinoza / Drew Daniel -- Thinking feeling / Benedict S. Robinson -- Crocodile tears: affective fallacies old and new / Joseph Campana -- Affective form. The feel of the slaughterhouse: affective temporalities and Marlowe's The massacre at Paris / Patricia Cahill -- Spenser's envious history / David Landreth -- Affective contagion on the early modern stage / Evelyn Tribble -- Afterword: thinking about affect and emotion in Julius Caesar / Gail Kern Paster.
Abstract The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring: the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action; the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems; and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body. .
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017932756
ISBN9781137570741 hbk. : acid-free paper
ISBN1137570741 hbk.

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