... literary sphere, as an academic, writer and critic, Lisa Sheppard was navigating a field that she would remain within well beyond the doctoral journey. Sheppard (2018: 204) notes the ways in which it was ‘emotionally tricky to navigate relationships between authors, critics and lay readers’, publishing...

... is to think about how we might try to excavate the kinds of affective solidarity that underpinned the factionalism of the period, and thus the means through which courtiers (and by extension, their servants, clients, and associates) might be emotionally empowered by factional participation. This essay...

... of emotive language in early modern writings, situating its meaning within the framework of Galenic humoralism, our contributors also attempt to reconsider the metaphorical, poetic and more generally unbounded potential of emotionally charged language in this period. As Strier has helpfully reminded us...

... to ‘apprehend’ (emotionally, sensorily) much more: ‘the forms of things unknown’ that, in the hands of the poet, can be named and expressed – so that ‘airy nothing’ is manifest (5.1.2–15). At the back of Theseus’s consternation is a common impasse: the imagination defies categorisation and so it also evades...

...-1598) Cambyses, King of Persia (1569) and Shakespeare’s Richard III (c.1592-3). In their representation of the rhetorical performances of the passions of the key players, these texts illustrate not only how emotion might be communicated from one...

... experiences of the ‘new left’ women’s politics in its very early days. The chapter argues that the arrival of Women’s Liberation was more socially and emotionally complex than existing histories often suggest with far-reaching implications for every-day family life and friendships as well as political life...

... to manage torn loyalties between the group identity and their own feelings, at odds with women they felt otherwise bound to as socialist sisters. Privileging the political primacy of experience and subjectivity, the early days of Women’s Liberation saw Tufnell Park members arriving emotionally fragile...

...John Ganim unpacks William Morris’s eroticised but anxious politics in News from Nowhere. Ganim highlights the significance of the emotional attachment to environment in the formulation of Morris’s utopia. He also considers the enabling influence of the medieval dream vision...

... is to be enacted upon, as a negation that is already felt as suffering. The fear of passivity is tied to the fear of emotionality, in which weakness is defined in terms of a tendency to be shaped by others … The association between passion and passivity is instructive. It works as a reminder of how ‘emotion’ has...

...This chapter argues that imagery is initially experienced emotionally. It establishes that images of Africa are centrally images of suffering and that this generates emotional responses of compassion and guilt. This connection is most strongly exemplified in images of famine. The chapter also...

.... Where a relationship was emotionally engaged, the material significance of the letter was heightened. Letters were also prized for the sense of physical proximity they engendered in the recipient, the feel of the letter in the hand making the author all the more present in her absence. The letter...

...What role does memory play in migrants’ adaption to the emotional challenges of migration? How are migrant selfhoods remade in relation to changing cultural myths? This book, the first to apply Popular Memory Theory to the Irish Diaspora, opens new lines of critical enquiry within scholarship...

... investments, determining whose histories might be believed and whose were the stuff of pure fiction. It approaches the construction, and rejection, of historical mirabilia in relation to ‘communities of wonder’, a new application of the concept of the ‘emotional community’ by which wonder is accepted...

... much more important to people, and the variety of laundry- and washing-related items in people’s homes grew. By exploring indigent recollections of the hearth, the emotional and symbolic importance of the area is considered, along with how fireplaces could be a site of danger or conflict. The most...

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... Louis XVIII ancestry Revolution property nobility emigration emotion We have the misfortune to be born at the moment of one of these big revolutions: whatever the happy or unhappy result of it shall be for the people born in future, the present generation is lost. ¹ ‘Among the many...

... to be a very uncomfortable reading experience.) Sometimes, the scene-ending disaster is so shocking or terrible that the protagonist may be emotionally blitzed and too numb to comprehend it. Savvy writers don’t skip that reaction. They play the numbed shock. Then the dam will break, and real emotion will come...

... and the fate of Arcite in the Knight’s Tale contrast sharply with Troilus’s celestial transcendence. affect atmosphere bodies embodiment emotions Gower John Middle English Trevisa John Chaucer’s works House of Fame humours world Mitchell J Allan cognition Latini Brunetto love...

... able to claim an authority that empowers him—emotionally, if not politically—in a moment of grave vulnerability. Nevertheless, in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy, the ruler’s contentment conflicts with his status as a ruler; the existence of one seemingly precludes the other. While contentment may indeed...

...In ‘“My heart is satisfied’: revenge, justice and satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy’, Eonjoo Park reveals how the notion of emotional satisfaction has been an overlooked generic feature of revenge tragedy—a feature that crucially defines how plays like The Spanish Tragedy understand...