Last Christmas my sister bought me a tome called The Book of Human Emotions (by Tiffany Watt Smith). I just started reading it and it got me thinking about how a writer might arouse emotion in a reader (and not in terms of provoking them to throw the book out of the window in disgust).
Emotions are perhaps not my forte - I tend to be rather logical in my thinking, and so getting to the nitty-gritty of this kind of technique would be of enormous benefit to my writing (and perhaps would benefit other left-brainers reading these answers too). Consequently - no detail is too trivial.
To make it more focused, though - I would like answers to concentrate on one emotion: anger. And so my question is: how can a fiction writer elicit the emotion/feeling of anger in readers, in terms of getting them to feel and therefore closely identify with what the (angry) character is experiencing?
Research: Does this writing create emotion in the reader? makes a good start, but the question is about a particular piece of work and the answers are rather general. What makes writing emotional? also makes inroads but the question is about technical writing and the answers are consequently about how to inject personality in a paper. And, again - the advice (while good) is general.
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