Title Emotion in the Tudor Court Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling / Bradley Irish

Published Northwestern University Press

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Description 1 online resource Contents The disgusting Cardinal Thomas Wolsey -- The envious Earl of Surrey -- The rejected Earl of Leicester, the rejected Sir Philip Sidney -- The dreading, dreadful Earl of Essex Summary Uniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Irish freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century, this study argues that the dynamics of disgust, envy, rejection, and dread, as they are currently theorized in the modern affective sciences, can be seen to guide textual production in the early modern court. With a multidisciplinary approach, the book develops and advances current scholarly treatments of early modern emotionality-which, in their largely historicist orientation, have tended to consider only how emotions were understood by Renaissance subjects. Because emotions are both socially contingent and biologically grounded, the author demonstrates the value of placing the transhistorical insights of the modern affective sciences alongside the still crucial findings of the historicist mode Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Emotions in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Courts and courtiers. Emotions in literature. English literature -- Early modern. Intellectual life. SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- History -- 16th century England -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century Subject England. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780810136403 0810136406

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