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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.
What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive
emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays
that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the
Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth,
solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologically diverse and
interdisciplinary, these essays draw from the history of emotions,
affect theory and the contemporary social and cognitive sciences to
reveal rich and sustained cultural attention in the early modern
period to these positive feelings. The book also highlights
culturally distinct negotiations of the problematic binary between
what constitutes positive and negative emotions. A comprehensive
introduction and afterword open multiple paths for research into
the histories of good feeling and their significances for
understanding present constructions of happiness and wellbeing. --
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The only book to take a really broad look at literature and emotion
from a variety of perspectives including neuroscience Section on
theory introduces the more complex areas of affect theory and
cognitive science so people can understand throughout the book
Looks at a wide variety of literature but also features commonly
studied writers such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Austen and Woolf
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