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Who gets to be angry? Who is allowed fully to express her grief? Whose emotional expression is regarded as disruptive or transgressive, and why? How do literary texts in particular capture, complicate, mediate, or even reinforce these cultural norms?
Kathryn Schulz, Lost and Found: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 2022), 69.
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Wells, M.A. (2023). Introduction. In: Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27721-4_1
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