Reading the Early Modern Passions
Subtitle: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion
Contributors: Gail Kern Paster (Editor); Katherine Rowe (Editor); Mary Floyd-Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780812237603
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature of special Gay & Lesbian interest; History and criticism; Emotions in literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Renaissance, 1450-1600; Reference; Gay & Lesbian; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; 17th century; European literature
First sentence: It is often taken as a basic truth about the whole "Western Tradition" that the control of "passion" by "reason" is its fundamental ethical-psychological ideal.