Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture

Judith Owens is Professor of English at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, where her research and teaching focus on the literature and culture of the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. She is the author of a monograph, Enabling Engagements: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Patronage (2002), and articles and book chapters on Spenser and on Walter Ralegh. She is co-editor, with Glenn Clark and Greg Smith, of City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City (2010).

• 1. Chapter One: Discipline and Resistance in the Schoolroom: Emotional Possibilities.- 2. Chapter Two: Paternal Authority in the Home: Emotional Negotiations.- 3. Chapter Three: Sidney and Heroic Paideia.- 4. Chapter Four: Learning and Loss in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.- 5. Chapters Five: Familial Feeling and Humanist Habits of Intellection in Hamlet.- 6. Chapter Six: Familial Imperatives and Humanist Habits of Intellection in Hamlet.-

“Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture: ‘Hamlet’, ‘The Faerie Queene’, and ‘Arcadia’ is an innovative study of these seminal works of early modern literature. … Owens offers fresh perspectives on these issues, suggesting the potential to read a range of early modern texts in new ways via this approach.” (Edel Lamb,The Spenser Review, March 1, 2021)