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Passion's Triumph over Reason - A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester (Hardcover)
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Passion's Triumph over Reason - A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester (Hardcover)
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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 political thought of its
time. The book also develops a new approach to understanding the
relationship between literature and philosophy. Consciously or not,
moral thinkers tend to ground their philosophising in certain
images of human nature. Their work is premissed on imagined models
of the mind and presumed estimates of man's moral potential. In
other words, the thinking of philosophical authors (as much as that
of literary ones) is shaped by the pre-rational assumptions of the
'moral imagination'. Because that is so, poets and dramatists in
their turn, in speaking to this material, typically do more than
just versify the abstract ideas of ethics. They reflect, directly
and critically, upon those same core assumptions which are integral
to the writings of their philosophical counterparts. Authors
examined here include Aristotle, Augustine, Hobbes, and an array of
lyric poets; but there are new readings, too, of The Faerie Queene
and Paradise Lost, Hamlet and Julius Caesar, Dryden's 'Lucretius',
and Etherege's Man of Mode. Tilmouth's study concludes with a
revisionist interpretation of the works of the Earl of Rochester,
presenting this libertine poet as a challenging, intellectually
serious figure. Written in a lucid, accessible style, this book
will appeal to a wide range of readers.
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