Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)

Brand: MACMILLAN

Author: Bailey, Amanda

Edition: 1st ed. 2017

Number Of Pages: 247

EAN: 9781137570741

Release Date: 22-03-2017

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

Details: The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volumedemonstrates 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.