Foundations of Feeling
Theorizing Emotions in Late Medieval Literature
9780226850498
9780226850511
Foundations of Feeling
Theorizing Emotions in Late Medieval Literature
304 pages | 3 halftones | 6 x 9
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature, Romance Languages
Table of Contents
Introduction. Theorizing Emotions: Causes, Nature, Taxonomies, Gender
1. Languages of Feeling, 1100–1500
Interlude. Changing Emotions
2. Sudden Love: On Desire and Emotional Freedom
3. Just Feeling: Natural Law and the Nature of Emotions
Interlude. Categorical Emotions
4, Envious Charity: Taxonomies of Feeling and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
5. Gendering Women: Singularity and Community in the Fifteenth Century
Coda. The Mixed Emotional Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index