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By reading the work of contemporary affect theorists through the prism of current critical conversations within early modern studies, the chapters in Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts explore the connections among the insights of affect theory into subjectivity and emotion and earlier ways of conceiving of materiality and embodiment. In this introduction, we reveal the relevance of early modern texts to the key analytic rubrics driving affect theory, and suggest how the confrontation between contemporary theories of affect and historical analysis of early modern texts generate productive tensions conducive to new methods and insights.
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Bailey, A., DiGangi, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Bailey, A., DiGangi, M. (eds) Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56126-8_1
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