How Long to Read Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England

How Long Does it Take to Read Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England by Dr David Houston Wood

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Description

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns. Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity, viewed within the tenets of contemporary medical treatises, facilitated the realistic portrayal of literary characters and served as a structuring principle for narrative experimentation. The study centers on four canonical, early modern texts notorious among scholars for their structural- that is, narrative, or temporal- difficulties. Wood displays the cogency of such analysis by working across a range of generic boundaries: from the prose romance of Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to the staged plays of William Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale, to John Milton's stubborn reliance upon humoral theory in shaping his brief epic (or closet drama), Samson Agonistes. As well as adding a new dimension to the study of authors and texts that remain central to early modern English literary culture, the author proposes a new method for analyzing the conjunction of character emotion and narrative structure that will serve as a model for future scholarship in the areas of historicist, formalist, and critical temporal studies.

How long is Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England?

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England by Dr David Houston Wood is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England aloud.

What Reading Level is Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England?

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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