Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England
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character emotion studies
Early Modern
Early Modern Emotions
Early Modern English
Early Modern Humoral Theory
early modern literature
Early Modern Medical Texts
Early Modern Medical Theorists
English Renaissance texts
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Female Melancholia
Humoral Melancholy
humoral theory
Hysterica Passio
Implicitly Volatile
Intersubjective Logic
medical humanities
Melancholy Adust
Melancholy Humor
Milton's Poem
narrative structure analysis
OED's Definition
OED’s Definition
Related Temporality
Samson Agonistes
Samson's Final Act
Samson’s Final Act
Sidney's Narrator
Sidney's Representation
Subjective Temporality
temporality in literary characterisation
Tempus Edax Rerum
Unpremeditated Homicide
Winter's Tale
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754666752
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns. Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity, viewed within the tenets of contemporary medical treatises, facilitated the realistic portrayal of literary characters and served as a structuring principle for narrative experimentation. The study centers on four canonical, early modern texts notorious among scholars for their structural- that is, narrative, or temporal- difficulties. Wood displays the cogency of such analysis by working across a range of generic boundaries: from the prose romance of Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to the staged plays of William Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale, to John Milton's stubborn reliance upon humoral theory in shaping his brief epic (or closet drama), Samson Agonistes. As well as adding a new dimension to the study of authors and texts that remain central to early modern English literary culture, the author proposes a new method for analyzing the conjunction of character emotion and narrative structure that will serve as a model for future scholarship in the areas of historicist, formalist, and critical temporal studies.
David Houston Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, lives in Marquette, Michigan, where he teaches English Renaissance literature.
