Passion's Triumph over Reason A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester

Name: Passion's Triumph over Reason A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester
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ISBN: 9780199212378

ISBN-10: 0199212376

ISBN-13: 9780199212378

Edition: 2007

Authors: Christopher Tilmouth

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Passion's Triumph over Reason presents a comprehensive survey of ideas of emotion, appetite, and self-control in English literature and moral thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. in a narrative which draws on tragedy, epic poetry, and moral philosophy, Christopher Tilmouth explores how Renaissance writers transformed their understanding of the passions, re-evaluating emotion so as to make it an important constituent of ethical life rather than the enemy within which allegory had traditionally cast it as being. This interdisciplinary study departs from current emphases in intellectual history, arguing that literature should be explored alongside the moral rather than…

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction



Governance and the Passions



Positions in early modern moral thought



Spenser, psychomachia, and the limits of governance



Hamlet 'lapsed in passion'



Renaissance tragedy and the fracturing of familiar terms



Augustinian and Aristotelian influences from Herbert to Milton



The Rise and Fall of Libertinism



Hobbes: fear, power, and the passions



The Restoration ethos of libertinism



Rochester: the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinismCoda


Bibliography of references