Description
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study argues that the intersection of pedagogical and affective language in Renaissance literature shows that emotion was conceived as a conventional practice.
Trade Review"This well-researched book illuminates an excellent topic from the history of early modern philology and the relationship of literature and grammar-school education: how classroom teaching and the learning of grammar in the age of Shakespeare frequently connected language to emotions, and how this connection was manifested in different forms of conduct presented in drama and poetry by writers who absorbed the grammar curriculum in school." -- Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University *
Renaissance and Reformation *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. “Precept and Practice”: Theories of Grammar from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period 2. “Heart-Ravishing Knowledge”: Love and Learning in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella 3. The Ablative Heart: Love as Rule-Guided Action in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost 4. “Shapes of Grief”: The Grammatical and the Ineffable in Shakespeare’s Hamlet 5. “Drunken Custom”: Rules, Embodiment, and Exemplarity in Jonson’s Humors Plays Conclusion Notes Works Cited
