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ItemFacing Up to the History of Emotions(Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), 2017-02-01)This special issue of postmedieval brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a special focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best ‘face up’ to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about work that might yet be done, especially by medievalists working across medieval and postmedieval sources. In the idiom, ‘facing up,’ we evoke the impulse to assess and realise the place of medieval studies in the burgeoning field of emotions research. We also conjure our conceptual focus -- the expressive human face -- as a complex and intriguing source for reading emotions in the past. Whether the face is taken as textual or visual, literal or conceptual, represented or embodied, it is, like the emotions, critical in Western understandings of humanity itself.
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ItemObject Lessons: Inter- and Extra-Disciplinary Teaching in the History of Emotions(Teaching Association for Medievals Studies (TEAMS), 2016-10-31)
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ItemMinding Shirley's French(Project MUSE, 2016-01-01)
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ItemNot for Profit: "Amateur" Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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ItemThe History of Emotions and Middle English Literature(WILEY, 2016-06)Abstract Critics have long addressed questions of affect, feeling and emotional expression in Middle English literature, but only in recent years has their interest begun to take theoretical form under the rubric of the ‘history of emotions’. Current critical attitudes to the study of emotions in the past have been shaped substantially by the work of historians, whose focus on emotion in documentary sources has been influenced in turn by research in the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, linguistics and, increasingly, the cognitive sciences. How might existing methodologies situating emotions historically drive new approaches in Middle English literary studies? This article contends that existing analyses of Middle English literature relating to affective discourses might fruitfully be brought into conversation with new multidisciplinary forms of research into past emotions. We survey current critical trends in both the history of emotions and in Middle English literature. Case studies of two late Middle English literary texts, the anonymous Sir Orfeo and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, show how the last fifty years of scholarship has addressed emotions in Middle English literature. We conclude by suggesting future directions that might be taken up by critics of medieval English literary texts and genres to develop further the relationship between literary studies and the history of emotions.
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ItemChaucer in Nineteenth-Century France(Penn State University Press, 2015)This article surveys the critical reception of Chaucer’s works in nineteenth-century France and suggests what modern analyses of Chaucer’s relation to France and literature in French might stand to gain from taking the perspective of French readers and critics into account. An intellectual reorientation of the “French tradition” would allow us to interrogate the inherited critical vocabulary in which we think and write about Anglo-French exchange and to reconsider the very categories of “English” and “French” themselves, whether literary, linguistic, political, or disciplinary.
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ItemAfter Deschamps: Chaucer's French Fame(Boydell & Brewer, 2015)