The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies.The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma.They demonstrate that the once stable concept of emotion disintegrates in the course of re-evaluation and is replaced by such notions as "affects, passions, feelings" and "emotions".This volume examines the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose – from the anonymous "Court of Love" (ca.1500) to Ali Smith''s "How to Be Both" (2014) - as well as in life writing, music, the visual arts and theology.