Emotions and War
Medieval to Romantic Literature
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-349-67705-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses the place of the emotions in literary representations of war across six centuries of European history. It challenges modern assumptions about the passions and feelings attending violent conflict in order to reveal the multifarious historical emotions and emotional histories of war.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-67705-4 (9781349677054)
DOI
10.1057/9781137374073
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Contents
1. Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal; Lindsay Diggelman 2. 'Blisse wes on londe': The feeling of peace in La?amon's Brut; Andrew Lynch 3. 'Je hé guerre, point ne la doy prisier': Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d'Orléans; Stephanie Downes 4. 'He in salte teres dreynte': Understanding Troilus's Tears; Simon Meecham-Jones 5. Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the late Medieval Statian Tradition; James Simpson 6. Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester's Boke of Noblesse; Catherine Nall 7. 'I was enforced to become an eyed witnes': Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Joanna Bellis 8. 'Man is a battlefield within himself': Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives and their Circle; Andrew Hiscock 9. Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England; Peter Sherlock 10. Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'; Diana Barnes 11. 'Terrible Delight': Art, Violence and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems; Abigail Williams 12. 'In Brazen Bonds': The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775; Katrina O'Loughlin 13. The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson's Letters to The Times, 1808-09; Neil Ramsey 14. Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars; Mary Favret
1. Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal; Lindsay Diggelman 2. 'Blisse wes on londe': The feeling of peace in La?amon's Brut; Andrew Lynch 3. 'Je hé guerre, point ne la doy prisier': Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d'Orléans; Stephanie Downes 4. 'He in salte teres dreynte': Understanding Troilus's Tears; Simon Meecham-Jones 5. Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the late Medieval Statian Tradition; James Simpson 6. Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester's Boke of Noblesse; Catherine Nall 7. 'I was enforced to become an eyed witnes': Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Joanna Bellis 8. 'Man is a battlefield within himself': Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives and their Circle; Andrew Hiscock 9. Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England; Peter Sherlock 10. Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'; Diana Barnes 11. 'Terrible Delight': Art, Violence and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems; Abigail Williams 12. 'In Brazen Bonds': The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775; Katrina O'Loughlin 13. The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson's Letters to The Times, 1808-09; Neil Ramsey 14. Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars; Mary Favret