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The Art of Anger: Reimagining Emotion, Gender, and Class in Early Modern English Literature Park, Eonjoo Hammill, Graham English English literature Ph.D. The Art of Anger traces a cultural endeavor to present and defend the essential value of anger in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. Across various writing genres, from medical treatises to moral philosophical essays to prose romance to revenge tragedy as well as to pamphlets, early modern writers engaged in defining, demonstrating, and celebrating the constructive forms and functions of anger. Within this cultural imagination, the expression of anger was conceived of as a key source for transforming ineffectual political systems, redressing injustice, establishing subjectivity, and empowering female writers. Combined with the period’s dominant principle of self-restraint and emotional suppression, these cultural efforts to validate the expression of anger constituted a dialectic narrative that sought various legitimate, reasoned, and moderate ways of displaying as well as utilizing anger. This dissertation analyzes how Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia, Mary Wroth’s Urania, Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, and Jane Anger’s Jane Anger Her Protection participate in forming this dialectic narrative as they scrutinize the transformative potential of expressing anger. 2019-10-28T22:18:34Z 2019-10-28T22:18:34Z 2019 2019-08-09 18:29:44 Text Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/10477/80689 eng Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. University at Buffalo Libraries do not manage rights for copyright-protected works and cannot assist with permissions. Copyright retained by author. application/pdf State University of New York at Buffalo