Description
Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and awareness.
Complexities of Anger examines anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature, including texts by D. H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, and Bernadine Evaristo, arguing that anger can be a productive agent of correction, restoration, and destruction. In reading various literary representations – in postcolonial, gendered, and even posthumanist settings – the gathered essays show that anger can provoke and stimulate change between the author, the text, and its readers, examining social, political, domestic, private or environmental contexts.
Complexities of Anger goes beyond the existing literature on anger in literary studies, showing that anger becomes a product of change in relational spheres, while the literary impact of represented anger becomes a productive force within the text's inner literary dynamics. These essays also bring a fresh pair of eyes by setting previous approaches in dialogue with the cultural and environmental problems the world faces today.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledements
Introduction
Aytül Özüm, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Part I. Empowering Anger
1. Ressentiment or resentment: Politics of anger and immigration in the twenty-first century British novel
Elif Oztabak-Avci, MIddle East Technical University, Turkey
2. Anger and empowerment in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
Huriye Reis, Hacettepe University, Turkey
3. Brighton Rock and the making of an angry anti-hero
Berkem Saglam, Çankaya University, Turkey
4. Eco-anger reflections on climate change
Z. Gizem Yilmaz, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey
Part II. Gendering Anger
5. Cri de Coeur: Charlotte Mew's poetry and anger
Zümrüt Altindag, Kocaeli University, Turkey
6. Anger meets power: Women's embodied experience of aging in selected short stories from Furies
Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge, Ankara University, Turkey
7. Gazing back in anger: Forms of aggression in A. S. Byatt's Matisse Stories
Özlem Uzundemir, Çankaya University, Turkey
8. A politics of anger and ressentiment in Naomi Alderman's The Power
Kerim Can Yazgünoglu, Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey
9. Anger woven into language as agent of empowering women: 'Philomela's legacy' in Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale
Imren Yelmis , Hacettepe University, Turkey
10. Beyond confession: Anger, disillusionment and the transformative potential of autobiographical writing in the Patrick Melrose novels
Zübeyir Savas, Izmir Bakirçay University, Turkey
Part III. Psyching Anger
11. Mansplaining, gaslighting and microaggression: Lord Byron's anger in Jeanette Winterson's Frankisstein
Basak Agin, TED University, Turkey
12. Contemporary 'angry young men': Dennis Kelly's drama
Carla Fusco, University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
13. The rage of oceanic narcissists in D. H. Lawrence's 'The Princess', 'The Woman Who Rode Away' and 'St. Mawr'
Aytül Özüm, Hacettepe University, Turkey
14. The mimetic origins of destructive anger in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Hakan Yilmaz, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey
Part IV. Politicizing Anger
15. Exploring anger in post-Brexit drama: Roy Williams and Clint Dyer's Death of England and Death of England: Delroy
Özlem Özmen Akdogan, Mugla Sitki Koçman University, Turkey
16. Reconfiguring Identity and anguish: Muslim rage in contemporary British threatre
Önder Çakirtas, Bingöl University, Turkey
17. Fear of death or the value of life: Immigrant's fury in Lawrence Osborne's Beautiful Animals
Mehmet Ali Çelikel, Marmara University, Turkey
18. Post-imperial affect: Of anger, hobbits and Brexit
Trevor Hope, Yasar University, Turkey
19. Representation of moral anger in Simon Stephens's The Trial of Ubu and Three Kingdoms
Emine Seda Çaglayan Mazanoglu, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9798765132272 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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