Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories (Warwick Series in the Humanities)

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary.While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society.Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one of the most significant aspects of affect studies, it has garnered an increasing amount of critical attention in a number of disciplines across the humanities, sciences and social sciences in the past two decades.Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical exploration of the phenomenon of mood from an interdisciplinary angle.Building on cutting-edge research in this emerging field and bringing together established and new voices, it bridges the existing disciplinary gap in the study of mood and further consolidates this phenomenon as a crucial concept in disciplinary and interdisciplinary study.By combining perspectives and concepts from the literary studies, philosophy, musicology