Overview
- Engages with a wealth of source material in Atlantic history including poetry, theater, fiction, and music
- Carves a new path in Atlantic Studies through its exclusive focus on cities and their role in Atlantic cultural history
- Offers a cross-discipline appeal for scholars including cultural, art, architectural, economic, and theater historians.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism (PSATLC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Embodying the Political
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Affective Ecologies and Environments
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The book focuses more on distilling an early modern theory of affect than on employing modern theories of affect aimed at reading manifestations of affective subjectivities engendered by different materialist phenomena, and corporeal and psychological responses to them. … The combination of new scholarship, original connections between ideas and texts, intellectually stimulating criticism, and elegant writing makes Affect Theory a volume of essays that will be read and re-read by anyone working on affect theory.” (Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 42 (1), 2019)
“Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts successfully ‘use[s] affect as a prism through which to read early modern cultural, economic, and political phenomena’ … . In doing so, it contributes substantially to scholarly efforts to historicize affect and emotion, and to ongoing deliberations on the relationship betweenthinking and feeling.” (Ronda Arab, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72 (1), 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts
Book Subtitle: Politics, Ecologies, and Form
Editors: Amanda Bailey, Mario DiGangi
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56126-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57074-1Published: 22 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56126-8Published: 22 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6311
Series E-ISSN: 2634-632X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 234
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History