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Rethinking Feeling deftly brings the analytical and the emotional into a mutually illuminating relationship. Much more than just a thematic study of how certain novels depict feelings, the book invites us to consider how literary works contributed, in a period of rapid modernization, to the ongoing renegotiation of social and moral emotions. Yanacek offers fresh, insightful readings of historically relevant works while also developing an original account of how literary criticism can advance the work of emotion studies. * Brian Tucker, Professor of German, Wabash University, USA * Yanacek’s Rethinking Feeling is a significant interdisciplinary contribution to fin-de-siècle studies, affect studies, gender studies, narrative theory, and more. Offering four insightful and informative literary case studies, Yanacek critically and innovatively engages with the representation of emotions in German realism. Through meticulous research and sharp close readings, she shows how German realist and modernist-precursor texts from the turn of the century both illustrate emotional expression and document how these expressions and the perceptions of emotion changed over time. * Jen William, Professor of German, Purdue University, USA *

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Holly Yanacek is Associate Professor of German at James Madison University, USA. Her research focuses on emotion, narration, gender, ethics, and the non-human. She co-edited Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History (2021) and Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary (2018).

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