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Emotions and War

Medieval to Romantic Literature

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Stephanie Downes

    1. Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), University of Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Andrew Lynch

    1. Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), University of Melbourne, Australia
      University of Western Australia, Australia

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  3. Katrina O’Loughlin

    1. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800, University of Western Australia, Australia

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction — War as Emotion: Cultural Fields of Conflict and Feeling

    • Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, Katrina O’Loughlin
    Pages 1-23

  3. Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal

    • Lindsay Diggelmann
    Pages 24-41

  4. ‘Blisse wes on londe’: The Feeling of Peace in LaƷamon’s Brut

    • Andrew Lynch
    Pages 42-59

  5. ‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans

    • Stephanie Downes
    Pages 60-76

  6. ‘He In Salte Teres Dreynte’: Understanding Troilus’s Tears

    • Simon Meecham-Jones
    Pages 77-97

  7. Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the Late Medieval Statian Tradition

    • James Simpson
    Pages 98-116

  8. Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester’s Boke of Noblesse

    • Catherine Nall
    Pages 117-132

  9. ‘I Was Enforced to Become an Eyed Witnes’: Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    • Joanna Bellis
    Pages 133-151

  10. ‘Man Is a Battlefield within Himself’: Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives, and Their Circle

    • Andrew Hiscock
    Pages 152-168

  11. Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England

    • Peter Sherlock
    Pages 169-184

  12. Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’

    • Diana G. Barnes
    Pages 185-202

  13. ‘Terrible Delight’: Art, Violence, and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems

    • Abigail Williams
    Pages 203-217

  14. ‘In Brazen Bonds’: The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775

    • Katrina O’Loughlin
    Pages 218-234

  15. The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson’s Letters to The Times, 1808–1809

    • Neil Ramsey
    Pages 235-250

  16. Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars

    • Mary Favret
    Pages 251-259

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 260-274
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About this book

This volume addresses the place of the emotions in literary representations of war across six centuries of European history. It challenges modern assumptions about the passions and feelings attending violent conflict in order to reveal the multifarious historical emotions and emotional histories of war.

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“Each chapter usually focuses on a select work, generally poetry, letters, or specific authors. Impressive use has been made of this source material throughout, so that collectively the essays have drawn out a wide range of nuances, tropes, and emotional inflections … Ultimately, this collection explores emotions and war, regardless of what emotions may be evoked or wars fought or not, in a successful and very focused study that makes a useful contribution to history of emotions studies.” (Hilary Jane Locke, Parergon, Vo. 33 (1), 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), University of Melbourne, Australia

    Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch

  • University of Western Australia, Australia

    Andrew Lynch

  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800, University of Western Australia, Australia

    Katrina O’Loughlin

About the editors

Prof. Andrew Lynch is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, specializing in medieval and early modern literatures of war and peace. Drs Stephanie Downes and Katrina O'Loughlin are Research Associates in the history of emotions, specializing in literary texts written during the conflict of the Hundred Years War, and in eighteenth-century women's, travel, and civil war writing, respectively.

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