Publish and Flourish is an annual event that celebrates the accomplishments of our staff and faculty who have published monographs within the past year. The UW Tacoma Library purchases all staff and faculty publications to make them available to our campus community. This year’s event is being hosted online through our blog. 

This week we are highlighting:

Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Author: Cassie M. Miura with co-authors Cora Fox and Bradley J. Irish

Department: School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

“What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth, solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary, these essays draw from the history of emotions, affect theory and the contemporary social and cognitive sciences to reveal rich and sustained cultural attention in the early modern period to these positive feelings. The book also highlights culturally distinct negotiations of the problematic binary between what constitutes positive and negative emotions. A comprehensive introduction and afterword open multiple paths for research into the histories of good feeling and their significances for understanding present constructions of happiness and wellbeing.” — Manchester University Press

Find the ebook in the UW Libraries catalog here.

The UW Tacoma Library is very proud of your accomplishments, Cassie M. Miura. Congratulations!