Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fictionality and the emergence of interiority.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Carolyne Larrington is Emerita Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carolyne Larrington
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195845
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9584-5
• Seiten: 336
• Serie: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval