Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World (1st ed. 2023) (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions)

Synopsis

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031339653

Related ISBNs:

9783031339646

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

09/25/23

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Erin Sebo

Edited by:

Matthew Firth

Edited by:

Daniel Anlezark