{"product_id":"positive-emotions-in-early-modern-literature-and-culture-9781526137135","title":"Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? \u003ci\u003ePositive emotions in early modern literature and culture\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth, solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary, these essays draw from the history of emotions, affect theory and the contemporary social and cognitive sciences to reveal rich and sustained cultural attention in the early modern period to these positive feelings. The book also highlights culturally distinct negotiations of the problematic binary between what constitutes positive and negative emotions. A comprehensive introduction and afterword open multiple paths for research into the histories of good feeling and their significances for understanding present constructions of happiness and wellbeing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – \u003ci\u003eCora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. Miura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Rewriting discourses of pleasure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Happy Hamlet – \u003ci\u003eRichard Strier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Therapeutic laughter in Robert Burton’s \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e – \u003ci\u003eCassie M. Miura \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The pleasure of the text: reading and happiness in Rabelais and Montaigne – \u003ci\u003eIan Frederick Moulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Pleasure and the 'rustic life' – \u003ci\u003eUllrich Langer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Part II: Imagining happy communities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 The theology of cheer, Erasmus to Shakespeare – \u003ci\u003eTimothy Hampton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 ‘My crown is called content’: positive, negative,  and political affects in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy – \u003ci\u003ePaul Joseph Zajac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex Circle – \u003ci\u003eBradley J. Irish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eMerry Wives of Windsor – \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCora Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part III:  Forms, attachment, and ambivalence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Happy objects and earthly pleasure in Thomas Traherne’s devotional poetry – \u003ci\u003eLeila Watkins \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Trust and disgust: the precariousness of positive emotions in Webster’s \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi –\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLalita Pandit Hogan                \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘My heart is satisfied’: revenge, justice, and satisfaction in \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Tragedy – \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEonjoo Park \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 \u003ci\u003eAll’s Well That Ends Well? \u003c\/i\u003eHappiness, ambivalence, and story genre – \u003ci\u003ePatrick Colm Hogan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword – \u003ci\u003eMichael Schoenfeldt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040999801175,"sku":"9781526137135","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526137135.jpg?v=1750948548","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/positive-emotions-in-early-modern-literature-and-culture-9781526137135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}