This volume offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. The 18 articles examine the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose – from the medieval to Ali Smith’s – as well as in life writing, music and the visual arts.

Wojciech Dr?g lectures at the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wroc?aw. Ewa K?b?owska-?awniczak is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wroc?aw.

Contents: Joanna Bukowska: The Tour of : The Tradition of Amatory Poetry and Its Readjustments in Chaucerian Apocrypha – Aleksandra K?dzierska: «Memories of Love»: Seamus Heaney’s – Anna Cholewa-Purga?: Romantic Theology of Love According to Charles Williams – Tomasz Kulka: The Sense of the Divine: The Complexities of Wonder in Marilynne Robinson’s – Maria Antonietta Struzziero: Discourses of Love and Desire in Jeanette Winterson’s – Rod Mengham: The Obscene Emotions of Nell Dunn – Tomasz Basiuk: Warhol and Queer Shame – El?bieta Klimek-Dominiak: Double Portrait with Ambiguous Loss: Shame, Grief and Art in Patti Smith’s Relational Memoir – Dominika Ferens: Belated Interest: Reading the Fiction of Sigrid Nunez through Silvan Tomkins’s Affect Theory – Rachael Sumner: The Anatomy of Grief in Ali Smith’s Novel – Anna Maria Tomczak: Ways of Grieving: Bharati Mukherjee’s «The Management of Grief» and Jhumpa Lahiri’s «Hema and Kaushik» – Rowland Cotterill: Emotions, Emotionalism, and Moods: Can We Give Hamlet Any Good Advice? – Grzegorz Moroz: Travel Books, Nostalgia and Paratexts: The Case of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s – Bo?ena Kuca?a: Reticence and Reclusion in William Trevor’s – Andrzej Ksi??opolski: Emotional Carnage: Experience and Recollections of War in Ian McEwan’s – Corina Cri?u: «A Welter of Emotions:» (Re)writing Exile in Irina Pan?’s Romanian-Australian Memoir – Wojciech Kozak: Envy Revisited: Muriel Spark’s – Michael Hollington: Music, Poetry, Parody: Collins’s «The Passions: An Ode for Music» and Dickens’s .