The book focuses more on distilling an early modern theory of affect than on employing modern theories of affect aimed at reading manifestations of affective subjectivities engendered by different materialist phenomena, and corporeal and psychological responses to them. The combination of new scholarship, original connections between ideas and texts, intellectually stimulating criticism, and elegant writing makes Affect Theory a volume of essays that will be read and re-read by anyone working on affect theory. (Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 42 (1), 2019)
Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts successfully use[ s] affect as a prism through which to read early modern cultural, economic, and political phenomena . In doing so, it contributes substantially to scholarly efforts to historicize affect and emotion, and to ongoing deliberations on the relationship betweenthinking and feeling. (Ronda Arab, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72 (1), 2019)