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The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

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  • Contributes an innovative approach to studying the cross section of affect theory and literary studies

  • Brings together a wide range of renowned and junior scholars on the subject of literary affect

  • Includes interdisciplinary discussions beyond literature such as history, film, theatre, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

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About this book

This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism, as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and aesthetics. Guiding readers to the variety of topics, themes, interdisciplinary dialogues, and sub-disciplinary specialties that the study of interplay between affect and texts has either inaugurated or revitalized, the handbook showcases and engages the diversity of scholarly topics, approaches, and projects that thinking of affect in relation to texts and related media open up or enable. These include (but are not limited to) investigations of what attention to affect brings to established methods of studying texts—in terms of period, genre, cultural contexts, rhetoric, and individual authorship.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Auburn University, Auburn, USA

    Donald R. Wehrs

  • English/Philosophy Department, Monroe Community College, Rochester, USA

    Thomas Blake

About the editors

Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and comparative literature. He is editor of Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature (2013), co-editor of Cognition, Literature, and History ( 2014), and co-editor of Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009). He has published three monographs on twentieth-century African fiction—Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives (2008), Islam, Ethics, Revolt  (2008), and African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values (2001)—as well as book chapters and journal articles on British fiction, Shakespeare, postcolonial literature, and medieval romance.

Thomas Blake is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Monroe Community College, New York. He is author of “Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdos’s Doña Perfecta, Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, and Andalusian Culture,” in Cognition, Literature, and History (2014) and “Staging Heidegger: Corporeal Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the Theater” in Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life (Springer, 2011).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

  • Editors: Donald R. Wehrs, Thomas Blake

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63303-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63302-2Published: 19 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87522-4Published: 31 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63303-9Published: 01 December 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 883

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History

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