The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

Introduction. Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions  Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives  1. Affective Neuroscience: The Symbiosis of Scientific and Literary Knowledge  2. Affect Theory  3. Cognitive Linguistics: A Perspective on Emotion in Literature  4. Cognitive Science: Literary Emotions from Appraisal to Embodiment  5. Embodiment: Embodied Simulation and Emotional Engagement with Literary Characters  6. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender  7. Evolution: How Evolved Emotions Work in Literary Meaning  8. The History of Emotions and Literature  9. Philosophy, Literature, and Emotion  Part 2 Emotions of Literature  10. Aesthetic Emotions  11. Paradoxes of Literary Emotion: Simulation and The Zhào Orphan  12. Sympathy and Empathy  13. Tragedy and Comedy: Emotional Tears and Trust in King Lear and Cymbeline  Part 3 Literature and Emotion in the World  14. Colonialism and Postcolonialism  15. Disability, "Enslavement," and Slavery: Affective Historicism and Fletcher and Masssinger's A Very Woman  16. Ecology and Emotion: Feeling Narrative Environments  17. Morals: The Ethical Gangster  18. Gender, Emotion, Literature: "No Woman's Heart" in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night  19. Race and Ethnicity  20. Sexuality  21. Trauma and Its Future: Re-Visiting Aesthetic Form Debates  Part 4 Elements of Literary Structure and Experience  22. Authors: Cognitive Patterns and Individual Creativity  23. Character and Emotion in Fiction  24. Language, Style, and Texture  25. Narrative and Plot: Unreliable Feelings and the Risks of Surprise  26. Readers  27. Social Reception  28. Stories: Particular Causes and Universal Genres  Part 5 Modes of Literature  29. Drama: Feeling Out Loud in Shakespearean Apostrophe and the History of Emotions  30. Film: The Affective Specificity of Audiovisual Media  31. Graphic Fiction: BIPOC Teen Comics  32. Lyric  33. Prose Fiction  Part 6 Literary Examples  34. Geoffrey Chaucer  35. William Shakespeare: Anxieties About Trust in The Tempest  36. Jane Austen and the Emotion of Love  37. Virginia Woolf's Development of a Sociology of Emotion in the Composition of The Years (1937)

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