{"product_id":"reading-the-early-modern-passions-essays-in-the-cultural-history-of-emotion-9780812218725","title":"Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Western culture has traditionally held emotion to be hostile to reason and the production of scientific knowledge, why and how have the passions been lauded as windows to higher truths?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssessing the changing discourses of feeling and their relevance to the cultural history of affect, \u003ci\u003eReading the Early Modern Passions\u003c\/i\u003e offers fourteen interdisciplinary essays on the meanings and representations of the emotional universe of Renaissance Europe in literature, music, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany in the early modern era were preoccupied by the relation of passion to action and believed the passions to be a natural force requiring stringent mental and physical disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn speaking to the question of the historicity and variability of emotions within individuals, several of these essays investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther essays 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing anxieties about the power of emotions; their relation to the public good; their centrality in promoting or disturbing an individual's relation to God, to monarch, and to fellow human beings, the authors also look at the ways emotion serves as a marker or determinant of gender, ethnicity, and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors to the volume include Zirka Filipczak, Victoria Kahn, Michael Schoenfeldt, Bruce Smith, Richard Strier, and Gary Tomlinson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Kern Paster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812218725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2005 pg. 1397\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGail Kern Paster is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the author of The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Katherine Rowe is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern. Mary Floyd-Wilson teaches English literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40163139190899,"sku":"0812218728","price":43.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_86b7d362-b7e2-4688-9ff0-22ce0533c9ce.jpg?v=1655042808","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/reading-the-early-modern-passions-essays-in-the-cultural-history-of-emotion-9780812218725","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}