What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Patrick Colm Hogan

Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways
emotions are produced, experienced, and enacted in human social life. It is
particularly valuable because it deepens our comprehension of the mutual
relations between emotional response and ethical judgment. These are
the central claims of Patrick Colm Hogan’s study that carefully examines
a range of highly esteemed literary works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological, and other empirical research.