Affect theory and early modern texts : politics, ecologies, and form /
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 a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1137570741 9781137570741 |