Reading the Early Modern Passions Essays in the Cultural History of
Emotion Edited by Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary
Floyd-Wilson "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" How translatable is the
language of the emotions across cultures and time? What
connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early
modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If
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? Assessing the
changing discourses of feeling and their relevance to the cultural
history of affect, "Reading the Early Modern Passions" offers
fourteen interdisciplinary essays on the meanings and
representations of the emotional universe of Renaissance Europe in
literature, music, and art. Many 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. In 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. Other 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.
Addressing 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.
Contributors to the volume include Zirka Filipczak, Victoria Kahn,
Michael Schoenfeldt, Bruce Smith, Richard Strier, and Gary
Tomlinson. Gail 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." 2004 392 pages 6 x 9 27
illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3760-3 Cloth $75.00s 49.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-1872-5 Paper $28.95s 19.00 World Rights Cultural
Studies, History Short copy: Authors 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.
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