Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture Adolf K.Y. Ng

Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture Adolf K.Y. NgExploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good feelings in the Renaissance.

This book investigates capitalism’s mounting destructiveness

Through a series of thematic chapters

see their friends suffer and die of poverty

The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire

Carlyle Reedy

now revised and updated edition of this Middle English Arthurian romance

Capturing the issues and debates that are shaping both curricula and practice

and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local

controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women

reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches—particularly its habitual and contractual roots—that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories

The play itself is one of Jonson's best and has a prescient storyline about journalism being traduced and becoming entertainment instead of remaining factual

instructive and accessible