Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature(English, Hardcover, Larrington Carolyne)

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Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature(English, Hardcover, Larrington Carolyne) is written by Larrington Carolyne and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526176130 (ISBN 10) and 9781526176134 (ISBN 13).

Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature - in particular secular literature - as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences - those who read them or hear them read or performed?