Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion

by Bradley J. Irish

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1350213985

ISBN13:9781350213982

Release Date:March 2023

Publisher:Arden Shakespeare

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Drama Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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