Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature

285 Pages·2015·1.374 MB·English

by  Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, Katrina O’Loughlin (eds.)

Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Series editors:
David Lemmings, Professor of History, University of Adelaide, Australia
William M. Reddy, William T. Laprade Professor of History, Duke University, USA
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions includes work that redefi nes past defi nitions
of emotions; re-conceptualizes theories of emotional ‘development’ through history;
undertakes research into the genesis and effects of mass emotions; and employs a
variety of humanities disciplines and methodologies. In this way it produces a new
interdisciplinary history of the emotions in Europe between 1100 and 2000.
Titles include:
Rob Boddice (editor)
PAIN AND EMOTION IN MODERN HISTORY
Kyra Giorgi
EMOTIONS, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY ON THE MARGINS OF EUROPE
Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O’Loughlin (editors)
EMOTIONS AND WAR: MEDIEVAL TO ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Forthcoming titles include:
Erika Kuijpers
TRAUMA, MEMORIES AND EMOTIONS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika (editors)
DISASTER, DEATH AND EMOTIONS IN THE SHADOW OF THE APOCALYPSE,
1400–1700
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Emotions and War
Medieval to Romantic Literature
Edited by
Stephanie Downes
Andrew Lynch
and
Katrina O’Loughlin
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction – War as Emotion: Cultural Fields
of Confl ict and Feeling 1
Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O’Loughlin
1 Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in
the History of William Marshal 24
Lindsay Diggelmann
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2 ‘Blisse Wes on Londe’: The Feeling of Peace in La amon’s Brut 42
Andrew Lynch
3 ‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions
of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans 60
Stephanie Downes
4 ‘He In Salte Teres Dreynte’: Understanding Troilus’s Tears 77
Simon Meecham-Jones
5 Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos:
War, Deliberation and Destruction in the Late Medieval
Statian Tradition 98
James Simpson
6 Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester’s
Boke of Noblesse 117
Catherine Nall
7 ‘I Was Enforced to Become an Eyed Witnes’: Documenting
War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature 133
Joanna Bellis
8 ‘Man Is a Battlefi eld within Himself’: Arms and the Affections
in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives, and Their Circle 152
Andrew Hiscock
9 Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War
in Seventeenth-Century England 169
Peter Sherlock
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10 Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell’s
‘Upon Appleton House’ 185
Diana G. Barnes
11 ‘Terrible Delight’: Art, Violence, and Power in
Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems 203
Abigail Williams
12 ‘In Brazen Bonds’: The Warring Landscapes
of North Carolina, 1775 218
Katrina O’Loughlin
13 The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent:
The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson’s
Letters to The Times, 1808–1809 235
Neil Ramsey
14 Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars 251
Mary Favret
Select Bibliography 260
Index 265
Acknowledgements
As editors, we warmly thank our contributors for their whole-hearted
commitment to the book and willingness to revise chapters. Professor
Bob White of The University of Western Australia has given us friendly
advice and generous encouragement from the beginning of the project.
The anonymous readers for Palgrave’s Studies in the History of Emotions
series offered useful comments and suggestions which have improved the
final product. We also thank Holly Tyler, Jenny McCall, and Jade Moulds
for their essential and expert assistance at various stages of editing and
production. Special thanks to Chris Tiffin for invaluable help late in the
day and his keen eye for our own editorial errors. Further thanks are due to
the Royal Academy, London, for permission to reproduce the cover image.
Finally, we acknowledge that our research for the volume was funded by
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of
Emotions, Europe 1100–1800 (CE110001011).
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Notes on Contributors
Diana G. Barnes is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland
with particular interests in the cultural history of early modern women’s
letters and the politics of seventeenth-century English literature. She has
recently written a book called Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664
(2013). She has written essays on Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osborne,
and Mary Wortley Montagu. Her current research includes a book provi-
sionally entitled The Politics of Civility: Historicising Early Modern Genres of
Community, and a co-authored history of women’s letters.
Joanna Bellis is the Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke
College, Cambridge, working on the representation of war, especially the
Hundred Years War, in medieval and early modern literature. Her critical edi-
tion of John Page’s The Siege of Rouen has just come out with Middle English
Texts (2015). Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Medieval History,
Review of English Studies, Medium Aevum, Studies in Philology, Leeds Studies in
English, and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and several edited
volumes. She is working on a monograph on Hundred Years War literature
from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and is co-editing a volume
with Laura Slater entitled Representing War and Violence in Late Medieval
Europe.
Lindsay Diggelmann is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of
Auckland, New Zealand. He teaches widely in medieval and early modern
European topics but his main interests lie in the Norman and Angevin
regimes of the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England and France. His
publications include several articles on connections between the language
of emotions and representations of medieval kingship in Anglo-Norman
literary and historical texts.
Stephanie Downes is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne
in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History
of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). She has published on aspects of late
medieval Anglo-French literary and manuscript culture and its modern
reception.
Mary Favret is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, where
she teaches primarily eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Her
most recent book, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern
Wartime, was published in 2009. She has written extensively on representa-
tions of wartime, war and other forms of violence, as well as affect, reading,
and the novels of Jane Austen.
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Notes on Contributors ix
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate School
for the College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University, Wales. His
research is interdisciplinary in nature, with an emphasis on developments
in English and French early modern literature. He has published widely
across genres and authors from the late fi fteenth century to the late seven-
teenth century, with a focus on the dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and
Jacobean periods. He is the network co-ordinator for two interdisciplinary
research groups, Cultures of War and Confl ict Resolution Research Network and
the Pre-Modern Travel Research Network (PREMOT), and his most recent
monograph Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature was published in 2011.
Andrew Lynch is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at The University
of Western Australia, and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre
of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). He writes
mainly on later medieval literature and culture, and on their modern after-
lives in Britain, America, and Australia. His recent publications include
International Medievalism and Popular Culture, co-edited with Louise D’Arcens
(2014); Understanding Emotions in Early Europe, co-edited with Michael
Champion, is forthcoming in 2015.
Simon Meecham-Jones is an affiliated lecturer at the English Faculty, University
of Cambridge, where his teaching responsibilities have included medieval
literature and historical linguistics. He has published on Chaucer and Gower,
Twelfth-century Latin lyrics, the representation of Wales and the Welsh people
in medieval literature, and code-switching in medieval texts. He edited (with
Ruth Kennedy) Writers of the Reign of Henry II and Authority and Subjugation in
Writing of Medieval Wales for Palgrave Macmillan New Middle Ages series, and
is completing a monograph on Chaucer and Imagination.
Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway,
University of London. She is the author of Reading and War in Fifteenth-
Century England: From Lydgate to Malory (2012), and articles on book history
and English translations of Alain Chartier. She is working on a new edition
(with Daniel Wakelin) of William Worcester’s Boke of Noblesse, a monograph
on medieval battle speeches, and a study of Henry IV for the Penguin
Monarch series.
Katrina O’Loughlin is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of
Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100–1800, at The University of
Western Australia. She has published on various aspects of eighteenth-century
literary history and culture, including women’s writing, travel, and visual
satire; her monograph Women’s Travel Writing of the Eighteenth Century: ‘The
Paper Globe’ is forthcoming. Her next research project, for which she was
recently awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA
2015–18), explores the forging of international intellectual and affective
bonds among women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.