Delicious, Tender Chaucer: Coleridge, Emotion and Affect.

Published: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 30 (2014): 51-66.

Description: Explores relations between the reception of Chaucer and the "study of the history of emotion," focusing on the "symbolic capital" of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's brief comments on Chaucer in "Table Talk," the "social context" in which the comments were practiced, distinctions between "emotional" and "affective" responses that may be observed in the comments, and the " emotional work performed" by them. Includes comments on Chaucer's uses of "tender."

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies