Foundations of Feeling: Theorizing Emotions in Late Medieval Literature
Autor Jessica Rosenfelden Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2026
Are emotions primarily bodily or cognitive? Do “natural” emotions exist? What is the relationship between emotion and gender? In Foundations of Feeling, Jessica Rosenfeld shows how medieval literature informs contemporary ideas about how emotions operate. Ranging widely from love poetry to pastoral and theological writings, to political satire and more, Rosenfeld reveals a wealth of attention to emotions in both scientific and philosophical discourses of the time. By mining Latin, medieval French, and Middle English traditions, she relates medieval concerns to the most central, current debates (and impasses) in the fields of history of emotion and affect theory today, reframing how we think about and define feelings.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226850498
ISBN-10: 0226850498
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226850498
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Jessica Rosenfeld is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her books include Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
“Foundations of Feeling reveals the connections between literature and philosophy, between gender, affect, ethics, and politics. In the sometimes-difficult space of incommensurability provided and constituted by literary works, readers may imagine possibilities and find resources for ethical and political change. Rosenfeld’s work is theoretically ambitious and imaginative, grounded in insightful and sensitive analyses of examples drawn from a wide range of texts, genres, periods, and sociolinguistic contexts.”
“Foundations of Feeling is a welcome contribution to the history of emotions. Rosenfeld’s account attends to an impressive diversity of medieval writing on these topics. Her careful and conceptually rich method enables readers to recover a host of insights useful for affect theory and for rethinking certain periodizing assumptions.”
“In this powerful study, Rosenfeld analyzes how medieval literature articulates the structure of emotional experience by foregrounding the way humans process their emotions as they shape narratives and express responses to events. Foundations of Feeling bristles with intelligence and originality on every page. It is deeply learned in its understanding of medieval tradition, astute and enlivening in its readings of medieval texts, and written with engaging clarity.”
“Foundations of Feeling is a welcome contribution to the history of emotions. Rosenfeld’s account attends to an impressive diversity of medieval writing on these topics. Her careful and conceptually rich method enables readers to recover a host of insights useful for affect theory and for rethinking certain periodizing assumptions.”
“In this powerful study, Rosenfeld analyzes how medieval literature articulates the structure of emotional experience by foregrounding the way humans process their emotions as they shape narratives and express responses to events. Foundations of Feeling bristles with intelligence and originality on every page. It is deeply learned in its understanding of medieval tradition, astute and enlivening in its readings of medieval texts, and written with engaging clarity.”