Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form

by Amanda Bailey (Editor), M Digangi (Editor)

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 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.

247 pages, Hardcover

Published March 22, 2017

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[Patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved reading about something what seems for me like something I indirectly or subconsciously do all the time when reading a book, listening to music or watching a show/movie; doing it on the level of emotions. All these books, songs, movies and shows that effect me on an emotional level are always my favorite. Thanks to this book I know that this is not a weird thing, but a good thing; a social thing. Definitely have to go back re-reading it.