Shakespeare and Disgust

The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion

Bradley J. Irish (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2023
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-21398-2 (ISBN)

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Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare’s central dramatic concerns. Known as the ‘gatekeeper emotion’, disgust is the affective process through which humans protect the boundaries of their physical bodies from material contaminants and their social bodies from moral contaminants. Accordingly, the emotion provided Shakespeare with a master category of compositional tools – poetic images, thematic considerations and narrative possibilities – to interrogate the violation and preservation of such boundaries, whether in the form of compromised bodies, compromised moral actors or compromised social orders.

Designed to offer both focused readings and birds-eye coverage, this volume alternates between chapters devoted to the sustained analysis of revulsion in specific plays (Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Othello and Hamlet) and chapters presenting a general overview of Shakespeare’s engagement with certain kinds of prototypical disgust elicitors, including food, disease, bodily violation, race and sex disgust. Disgust, the book argues, is one of the central engines of human behaviour – and, somewhat surprisingly, it must be seen as a centrepiece of Shakespeare’s affective universe.

Bradley J. Irish is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, USA. He has published widely on both Shakespeare and early modern emotion. He is the author of Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (2018).

Introduction

1. What is Disgust?
2. Titus Andronicus: The Spectacle of Disgust
3. Food Disgust
4. Timon of Athens: The Cycles of Disgust
5. Disease Disgust
6. Coriolanus: The Circuit of Disgust
7. Body Envelope Disgust
8. Othello: The Disgusting Outsider
9. Racial Disgust
10. Hamlet: Death and Disgust
11. Sex Disgust

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.02.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-21398-5 / 1350213985
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21398-2 / 9781350213982
Zustand	Neuware