The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy

Book Overview

Recent research suggests that emotions are largely constructed and performed and that narrative is one of the most important practices through which people become emotionally aware. Narrative literature thus offers a privileged means of exploring the emotional standards and styles of the past. The essays collected here explore medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives in French, Spanish, and Italian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230105149
• ISBN13: 9780230105140
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"