What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion

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Explores emotion in a range of literary works, in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research.

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List of Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Studying Literature Studying Emotion	p. 1
Fictions and Feelings: On the Place of Literature in the Study of Emotion	p. 11
What Emotions Are	p. 40
Romantic Love: Sappho, Li Ch'ing-Chao, and Romeo and Juliet	p. 76
Grief: Kobayashi Issa and Hamlet	p. 111
Mirth: From Chinese Jokes to The Comedy of Errors	p. 144
Guilt, Shame, Jealousy: Macbeth, The Strong Breed, Kagekiyo, and Othello	p. 175
From Attachment to Ethical Feeling: Rabindranath Tagore and Measure for Measure	p. 221
Compassion and Pity: The Tempest and Une Tempête	p. 257
Afterword: Studying Literature Shaping Emotion: Madame Bovary and the Sublime	p. 287
Works Cited	p. 305
Index	p. 323
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