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

.-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


Author: Amanda Bailey
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/22/2017
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781137570741

About the Author
Amanda Bailey is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England, Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650, co-edited with Roze Hentschell, and Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.
Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley. He has edited Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Winter's Tale.