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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255072203321

Titolo

Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts : Politics, Ecologies, and Form     / / edited by Amanda Bailey, Mario DiGangi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-56126-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 234 p. 3 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism, , 2634-6311

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature, Modern

British literature

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Literature—History and criticism

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

British and Irish Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .