Title Emotion in the Tudor court : literature, history, and early modern feeling / Bradley J. Irish

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018

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Description 1 electronic resource (xi, 235 pages) Series Rethinking the Early Modern Rethinking the Early Modern. Contents The disgusting Cardinal Thomas Wolsey -- The envious Earl of Surrey -- The rejected Earl of Leicester, the rejected Sir Philip Sidney -- The dreading, dreadful Earl of Essex Summary Uniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Irish freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century, this study argues that the dynamics of disgust, envy, rejection, and dread, as they are currently theorized in the modern affective sciences, can be seen to guide textual production in the early modern court. With a multidisciplinary approach, the book develops and advances current scholarly treatments of early modern emotionality--which, in their largely historicist orientation, have tended to consider only how emotions were understood by Renaissance subjects. Because emotions are both socially contingent and biologically grounded, the author demonstrates the value of placing the transhistorical insights of the modern affective sciences alongside the still crucial findings of the historicist mode Notes Includes index This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Description based on print version record; resource not viewed Subject Emotions in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Courts and courtiers Emotions in literature English literature -- Early modern Intellectual life SUBJECT England -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century England -- Intellectual life -- History -- 16th century Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019667982 ISBN 0810136414 0810136406 9780810136410 9780810136403

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