Introduction.

Author / Editor
Burger, Glenn D., and Holly A. Crocker.

Title
Introduction.

Published
Burger and Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-24.

Description
Emphasizes how this essay collection presents "an intersectional approach to what medievals call affect and what moderns call emotions," and "speaks to the 'affective turn' in contemporary literary and cultural studies.” Introduction provides a close reading of BD that allows authors to uncover how premodern texts grapple with the connections between
emotion and affect.

Contributor
Crocker, Holly A.

Alternative Title
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism