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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798243503321

Titolo

Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare : Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida / / edited by Andrew Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov and Elisabeth Kempf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, Michigan : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78499-617-3

1-78499-679-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Disciplina

809.933543

Soggetti

Emotions in literature

Love in literature

Geschichte

Liebe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Literaturangaben

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.