Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction — War as Emotion: Cultural Fields of Conflict and Feeling....Pages 1-23
Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal....Pages 24-41
‘Blisse wes on londe’: The Feeling of Peace in LaƷamon’s Brut....Pages 42-59
‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans....Pages 60-76
‘He In Salte Teres Dreynte’: Understanding Troilus’s Tears....Pages 77-97
Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the Late Medieval Statian Tradition....Pages 98-116
Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester’s Boke of Noblesse....Pages 117-132
‘I Was Enforced to Become an Eyed Witnes’: Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature....Pages 133-151
‘Man Is a Battlefield within Himself’: Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives, and Their Circle....Pages 152-168
Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 169-184
Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’....Pages 185-202
‘Terrible Delight’: Art, Violence, and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems....Pages 203-217
‘In Brazen Bonds’: The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775....Pages 218-234
The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson’s Letters to The Times, 1808–1809....Pages 235-250
Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars....Pages 251-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-274