Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity [Hardcover]

This tightly focused collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars analyses the degree to which expressions of emotion in ancient literature and art become an 'artistic' rather than a 'social' construct. To what degree do literary genres, philosophy and visual arts produce expectations for the arousal of certain emotions? Are the emotions of women, for example, represented differently in different genres? How and why do literary genres and visual arts concentrate on specific emotions and stylise them accordingly, and how do particular emotions relate to gender within literary texts? The book will be of interest to all students and scholars of classical literature and gender studies.

Introduction: Emotion in Literature: Genre and Gender / Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Ohio State University, USA
1. Veiling Grief on the Tragic Stage / Douglas L. Cairns, University of Edinburgh, UK
2. Cowardice and Gender in the Iliad and Greek Tragedy / Jessica Wissmann Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, Germany
3. Women's Emotions in New Comedy / Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and David Konstan, Brown University and New York University, USA
4. Comic Emotions: Shamelessness and Envy (Schadenfreude); Moderate Emotion / Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Ohio State University, USA
5. Helen as Vixen, Helen as Victim: Remorse and the Opacity of Female Desire / Laurel Fulkerson, Florida State University, USA
6. Emotions in Ecphrasis and Art Criticism / ?velyne Prioux, Universite de Paris
7. One Wife, One Love: Coniugalis Amor, Grief and Masculinity in Statius' Silvae / Anna McCullough, Ohio State University, USA
8. Absit Malignus Interpres: Martial's Preface to Book One of the Epigrams and the Construction of Audience Response / Peter J. Anderson, Grand Valley State University, USA
9. De Bello Civili 2.326-91: Cato Gets Married / Margaret Graver, Dartmouth College, USA
10. Engendering Reception: Joseph Brodsky's Dilóa