Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by

What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understand

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candida