Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 Contributor(s): Ruys, Juanita (Editor), Champion, Michael (Editor), Essary, Kirk (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367086026 ISBN-13: 9780367086022 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Psychology | Emotions - Literary Collections |
Dewey: 152.409 |
LCCN: 2018042665 |
Physical Information: 262 pages |
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Publisher Description: Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of 'affect' or 'affection' (such as affectus, affectio, affeccioun, etc.), an international team of scholars explores the cultural and intellectual contexts in which emotion was discussed before the term 'emotion' itself came into widespread use. By tracing the history of key terms and concepts associated with what we identify as 'emotions' today, the volume offers a first-time critical foundation for understanding pre- and early modern emotions discourse, charts continuities and changes across cultures, time periods, genres, and languages, and helps contextualize modern shifts in the understanding of emotions. |