The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature.

Author / Editor
Downes, Stephanie, and Rebecca F. McNamara.

Title
The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature.

Published
Literature Compass 13.6 (2016): 444-56.

Description
Surveys "current critical trends" in the history of emotions and in Middle English literature, considering modern and postmodern criticism of TC ("a poem of emotional extremes") and "Sir Orfeo," and suggesting future directions for the study of emotions through medieval literature.

Contributor
McNamara, Rebecca F.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde