Christopher Tilmouth

Passion's Triumph Over Reason

A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control in the literature and moral thought of the 16th and 17th centuries. This work explores how writers of the English Renaissance transformed their understanding of the passions, recalibrating emotion as an important constituent of ethical life rather than the enemy.

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Christopher Tilmouth's wide-ranging study of Early Modern ideas of the passions explores a series of philosophical authors in relation to poets and dramatists of the period 1580 to 1680. Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, and Hobbes receive detailed treatment here, alongside Spenser's Faerie Queene, Hamlet and Julius Caesar, the lyrics of Herbert and Crashaw, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Central to this innovative exploration of literary-philosophical relations is a comprehensive reappraisal of the works of the Earl of Rochester.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199212378
• ISBN-10: 0199212376
• Artikelnr.: 22846805

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: Governance and the Passions
1: Positions in early modern moral thought
2: Spenser, psychomachia, and the limits of governance
3: Hamlet 'lapsed in passion'
4: Renaissance tragedy and the fracturing of familiar terms
5: Augustinian and Aristotelian influences from Herbert to Milton
Part Two: The Rise and Fall of Libertinism
6: Hobbes: fear, power, and the passions
7: The Restoration ethos of libertinism
8: Rochester: the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinism
Coda
Bibliography of references