Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts

1. Introduction
Amanda Bailey, Mario DiGangi

Part I. Embodying the Political

2. Speak What We Feel: Sympathy and Statecraft
Amanda Bailey

3. Affective Entanglements and Alternative Histories
Mario DiGangi

Part II. Affective Ecologies and Environments

4. Weird Otium

Julian Yates

5. Self-Killing and the Matter of Affect in Bacon and Spinoza
Drew Daniel

6. Thinking Feeling
Benedict S. Robinson

7. Crocodile Tears: Affective Fallacies Old and New
Joseph Campana

Part III. Affective Form

8. The Feel of the Slaughterhouse: Affective Temporalities and Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris

Patricia Cahill

9. Spenser’s Envious History
David Landreth

10. Affective Contagion on the Early Modern Stage
Evelyn Tribble

11. Afterword: Thinking About Affect and Emotion in Julius Caesar

Gail Kern Paster

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History