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Source : Palgrave MacmillanEmotions and War. Medieval to Romantic LiteratureEdited by Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, Katrina O'LoughlinISBN9781137374073Publication DateJuly 2015FormatsEbook (PDF) Hardcover Ebook (EPUB)PublisherPalgrave MacmillanSeriesPalgrave Studies in the History of EmotionsLiterature records, remembers, and recreates war and war's emotions in many forms: whether narrated by an eye-witness, an observer at distance, or one who contemplates conflict in the past, war is remembered through a wide range of literary texts, from narrative poems to personal letters and tomb inscriptions. The essays collected here explore the emotions of war in texts from the Middle Ages to the era of Romanticism, and in forms ranging from medieval chivalric biography to war correspondence in The Times. Brought together in this way, they show the impact of actual war experience on the literary production of emotions in the medieval and early modern periods. They illustrate how emotional life itself was – and continues to be - conceived and structured as part of human identity during wartime, in culturally and historically specific ways. By rejecting modern assumptions about the emotions of conflict, Emotions and War reveals the multifarious and discontinuous nature of historical emotions and emotional histories of wars past.&#160;&#160;Contents1. Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal ; Lindsay Diggelman2. 'Blisse wes on londe': The feeling of peace in Laȝamon's Brut; Andrew Lynch3. 'Je hé guerre, point ne la doy prisier': Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d'Orléans; Stephanie Downes4. 'He in salte teres dreynte': Understanding Troilus's Tears; Simon Meecham-Jones5. Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the late Medieval Statian Tradition; James Simpson6. Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester's Boke of Noblesse; Catherine Nall7. 'I was enforced to become an eyed witnes': Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Joanna Bellis8. 'Man is a battlefield within himself': Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives and their Circle; Andrew Hiscock9. Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England; Peter Sherlock10. Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'; Diana Barnes11. 'Terrible Delight': Art, Violence and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems; Abigail Williams12. 'In Brazen Bonds': The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775; Katrina O'Loughlin13. The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson's Letters to The Times, 1808-09; Neil Ramsey14. Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars; Mary Favret