Affect theory and early modern texts : politics, ecologies, and form
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Affect theory and early modern texts : politics, ecologies, and form
（Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism / series editors, Adam Frank, Joel Faflak）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
.-1 Introduction.-2 Speak What We Feel: Sympathy and Statecraft.-3 Affective Entanglements and Alternative Histories.-4 Weird Otium Julian Yates.-5 Self-Killing and the Matter of Affect in Bacon and Spinoza.-6 Thinking-Feeling.-7 Crocodile Tears: Affective Fallacies Old and New.-8 The Feel of the Slaughterhouse: Affective Temporalities and Marlowe's Massacre at Paris.-9 Spenser's Envious History.-10 Affective Contagion on the Early Modern Stage.-11 Afterword
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