The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature.

Author / Editor
Park, Justin Germain.

Title
The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2020. Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02 (E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed August 20, 2025.

Physical Description
v, 213 pp.

Description
Shows "how the frequent conflation between anger and revenge has shaped the representations of what we might call anger management in early English literature," from representative Old English works to Shakespeare. Two chapters focusing on Mel, ClT, KnT, and the tale-telling contest "explore how the discourses of patience and games are deployed to manage anger. Here, we can see how evaluation, as a principle of revenge, is strategically targeted by both discourses, each seeking to shift evaluatory frameworks."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales General
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Tale of Melibee