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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Carolyne Larrington
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781526176134
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7613-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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