Reading the early modern passions
Subtitle: essays in the cultural history of emotion
By: edited by Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson.
Contributors: Paster, Gail Kern.; Rowe, Katherine.; Floyd-Wilson, Mary.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.; European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Emotions in literature.
Description: Against the rule of reason / Richard Strier -- Commotion strange / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Poses and passions / Zirka Z. Filipczak -- Compassion in the public sphere of Milton and King Charles / John Staines -- Melancholy cats, lugged bears, and early modern cosmology / Gail Kern Paster -- English mettle / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Hearing green / Bruce Smith -- Humoral knowledge and liberal cognition in Davenant's Macbeth / Katherine Rowe -- Five pictures of pathos / Gary Tomlinson -- Passions and the interests in early modern Europe / Victoria Kaln -- Sadness in The faerie queene / Douglas Trevor -- Par accident / Jane Tylus -- Strange alteration / Timothy Hampton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-358) and index.