Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature : Afterlives of the Nightingale's Song |
Autore | Wells Marion A |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism Series |
ISBN | 3-031-27721-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- From Affect to Emotion -- Performing Emotives -- Notes -- 2 From Passive Matter to Embodied Affects: Gendering Emotions in the Classical Tradition -- "Matter Too Soft a Lasting Mark to Bear": Femininity, Passivity, and the Passions -- Masculine Coherence and Stoic Apatheia -- "Subject to the Will": Assenting to Passion -- Falling Bodies: Affects and the Stoic Prepassions -- Eat Your Groans: Affect, Voice, and Emotive -- Notes -- 3 Toward an Early Modern Affect Theory: Christian Stoicism and the Augustinian Will in Medieval and Early Modern Thought -- From Passions to Affects: Toward an Early Modern Affect Theory -- Notes -- 4 The Nightingale's Song: Weaving Affects in Virgil's Aeneid from the Trojan Women to Euryalus's Mother -- In One Voice: Trojan Women on Fire -- Amata, Allecto, and the "Rabid Mouth" of Female Frenzy -- The Nightingale's Song: Women's Weaving and the "Ululatus" of Tragedy -- Notes -- 5 "Though Me Were Looth": Translating Affect and the Maternal Body in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" -- Clothing and the Translation of Affect -- Assent and the Scandal of the Speaking Body -- Translating Feeling: Bodies, Loathness, and Death -- Frames of Reference: Power and "Pley" -- Willing and Nilling: Virtual Affects and the Loss of "One's Own" -- Androgynous Apatheia: Prosthetic Defenses Against Emotion -- Assaying "Sadness" in the Pregnant Body -- "Swowning … Lyk a Mother": Interrupted Promises -- Notes -- 6 "When You Are Gentle": Emotional Exercitives and Affective Injustice in Taming of the Shrew -- Performing Power in the Induction -- "Will You, Nill You": Linguistic Silencing and Emotional Exercitives -- Canceling Emotives: Becoming Petruccio's "Owene Thing" -- "I Know You Have a Stomach": Destabilizing Affects from Within.
Concocting the Passions: Digestion, Venting, and Transpiration in Words -- "My Tongue Will Tell the Anger of My Heart": Venting, Voice, and Heartbreak -- The Body Speaks: Froward Rhythms and Troubling Rhyme -- Notes -- 7 The Tears of Rachel: Lament and Affective Improvisation in Mary Carey's Life Narrative and Poetry -- Affect and Affliction: The Body Speaks -- Effeminate Lamentation: Carey's Emotional Community -- Rachel's Voice: A Bitter Mourning -- Now Let Me Die: Poetic Emotives and Lament -- Notes -- 8 Reflections on Everyday Affective Injustice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910805582003321 |
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The secret wound [[electronic resource] ] : love-melancholy and early modern romance / / Marion A. Wells |
Autore | Wells Marion A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933543 |
Soggetto topico |
Love in literature
Lovesickness in literature Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8047-6744-0
1-4356-0879-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance -- 1. From Amor hereos to Love-Melancholy: A Medico-Literary History -- 2. Vulnus caecum: The Secret Wound of Love-Melancholy -- 3. Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso -- 4. Il primo error: Love-Melancholy and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata -- 5. Rewriting Romance: Arthur’s “Secret Wound” and the “Lamentable Lay” of Elegy -- 6. “The Love-sicke hart”: Female Love-Melancholy and the Romance Quest -- Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Romance and the Dream of “Language Strange” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451970803321 |
Wells Marion A
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The secret wound [[electronic resource] ] : love-melancholy and early modern romance / / Marion A. Wells |
Autore | Wells Marion A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933543 |
Soggetto topico |
Love in literature
Lovesickness in literature Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism |
ISBN |
0-8047-6744-0
1-4356-0879-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance -- 1. From Amor heroes to Love-Melancholy: A Medico-Literary History -- 2. Vulnus caecum: The Secret Wound of Love-Melancholy -- 3. Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso -- 4. Il primo error: Love-Melancholy and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata -- 5. Rewriting Romance: Arthur’s “Secret Wound” and the “Lamentable Lay” of Elegy -- 6. “The Love-sicke hart”: Female Love-Melancholy and the Romance Quest -- Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Romance and the Dream of “Language Strange” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778255103321 |
Wells Marion A
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007 | ||
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