This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new, interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect - in fields from neuroscience to social theory - are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.
Patrick Colm Hogan is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Bradley J. Irish is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA.
Lalita Pandit Hogan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA.