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Book SynopsisAuthors here investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear. Others turn to emotions spread throughout society by contemporary events, such as a ruler's death, the outbreak of war, or religious schism, and discuss how such emotions have widespread consequences in both social practice and theory.
Trade Review"Thanks to the collection as a whole, the complex history of the passions in the early modern mind and body will now take a more prominent place in our study of the literature, art, and music of the period." *
MLR *
"Provides an engaging and extremely useful introduction to historicized explorations of the early modern passions through the lens of the creative arts." *
Sixteenth Century Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading the Early Modern Passions
PART I. EARLY MODERN EMOTION SCRIPTS
1. Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert — Richard Strier
2. "Commotion Strange": Passion in Paradise Lost — Michael Schoenfeldt
3. Poses and Passions: Mona Lisa's "Closely Folded" Hands — Zirka Z. Filipczak
4. Compassion in the Public Sphere of Milton and King Charles — John Staines
PART II. HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY
5. Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Early Modern Cosmology: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism Across the Species Barrier — Gail Kern Paster
6. English Mettle — Mary Floyd-Wilson
7. Hearing Green — Bruce Smith
8. Humoral Knowledge and Liberal Cognition in Davenant's Macbeth — Katherine Rowe
9. Five Pictures of Pathos — Gary Tomlinson
PART III. DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES
10. The Passions and the Interests in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Guarini's Il Pastor fido — Victoria Kahn
11. Sadness in The Faerie Queene — Douglas Trevor
12. "Par Accident": The Public Work of Early Modern Theater — Jane Tylus
13. Strange Alteration: Physiology and Psychology from Galen to Rabelais — Timothy Hampton
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
