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Shakespeare and Disgust - The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and Disgust - The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (Hardcover)
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Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern
affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the
experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic
concerns. Known as the 'gatekeeper emotion', disgust is the
affective process through which humans protect the boundaries of
their physical bodies from material contaminants and their social
bodies from moral contaminants. Accordingly, the emotion provided
Shakespeare with a master category of compositional tools - poetic
images, thematic considerations and narrative possibilities - to
interrogate the violation and preservation of such boundaries,
whether in the form of compromised bodies, compromised moral actors
or compromised social orders. Designed to offer both focused
readings and birds-eye coverage, this volume alternates between
chapters devoted to the sustained analysis of revulsion in specific
plays (Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Othello and
Hamlet) and chapters presenting a general overview of Shakespeare's
engagement with certain kinds of prototypical disgust elicitors,
including food, disease, bodily violation, race and sex disgust.
Disgust, the book argues, is one of the central engines of human
behaviour - and, somewhat surprisingly, it must be seen as a
centrepiece of Shakespeare's affective universe.
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