Introduction: studying literature, studying emotion 1. Fictions and feelings: on the place of literature in the study of emotion 2. What emotions are 3. Romantic love: Sappho, Li Ch'ing-Chao, and Romeo and Juliet 4. Grief: Kobayashi Issa and Hamlet 5. Mirth: from Chinese jokes to A Comedy of Errors 6. Guilt, shame, jealousy: The Strong Breed, Macbeth, Kagekiyo, and Othello 7. From attachment to ethical feeling: Rabindranath Tagore and Measure for Measure 8. Compassion and pity: The Tempest and Une Tempete Afterword: studying literature shaping emotion: Madame Bovary and the sublime.
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