Time, narrative, and emotion in early modern England
By: David Houston Wood.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780754666752; 9780754699040
Subjects: English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Time in literature; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Self in literature; Emotions in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Divers paced with divers persons" : timing the self in early modern England; title: " The accident of an instant" : passions, potions, and poisons in Sidney's Old Arcadia; title: "Very now" : time and the intersubjective in Othello; title: "Not a jar o' the clock" : time and narrative in The wsinter's tale; title: "Spirit of phrenzie" : narrative temporality in Samson Agonistes.