Deal Wit Hit™ Publishing Embracing Human Emotion in Literature: How It Was Lost — and How It Can Be RestoredFor most of human history, stories existed for a clear reason: to understand human emotion.From the earliest epics to modern novels, stories explored why people feel what they feel and what those feelings cause them to do. Fear leads to betrayal. Pride leads to downfall. Love leads to sacrifice. Revenge leads to destruction.Stories were emotional laboratories.Yet modern literature