Written on the Body

Autor(en)

Caterina Grasl

Abstrakt

This paper aims to position Haywood's first novel in relation to its socio-cultural background and its place in the history of emotions. Haywood's writing is characteristic of the eighteenth-century fascination with emotional expression through bodily signs. Insisting on the impossibility of encoding emotion in language, Haywood focuses on its somatic manifestations, forcing readers to fill the gaps from their own emotional experience. Implementing cognitive approaches to literature and cultural studies, my paper analyses the textual mechanisms that encourage reader involvement and engender sympathy, and shows how, in turn, these strategies elicit bodily displays of feeling in the audience and serve to interrogate and (de)construct established and emerging gender boundaries.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Institut für Römisches Recht und Antike Rechtsgeschichte

Journal

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia

Band

62

Seiten

201-236

Anzahl der Seiten

36

ISSN

1220-0484

Publikationsdatum

09-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602008 Anglistik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/63599065-b3ec-41d3-a63c-c81573d64ba8