Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts
Autor: | Amanda Bailey, Mario DiGangi |
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EAN: | 9781137561268 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 22.03.2017 |
Untertitel: | Politics, Ecologies, and Form |
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Schlagworte: | Affect Affect Theory Britain cultural theory culture history of literature literary theory literature |
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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.