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Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
Contributor(s): Burger, Glenn D. (Editor), Crocker, Holly A. (Editor)
ISBN: 110847196X     ISBN-13: 9781108471961
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Technology & Engineering | Television & Video
Dewey: 384.550
LCCN: 2019008383
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.6" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages
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- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Burger, Glenn D.: - Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Dean of Graduate Studies at Queens College. He has edited Hetoum's A Lytell Cronycle (1988) and (with Steven Kruger) Queering the Middle Ages (2001). He is author of Chaucer's Queer Nation (2003) and Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages (2017).Crocker, Holly A.: - Holly A. Crocker is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is author of The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare (forthcoming), Chaucer's Visions of Manhood (2007), editor of Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (2006), and co-editor of Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (2014; with D. Vance Smith).