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Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature - Reforming Contentment (Hardcover)
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Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature - Reforming Contentment (Hardcover)
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This book offers the first full-length study of early modern
contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the
gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding
concern of English Renaissance literature. Theorists and literary
critics have equated contentedness with passivity, stagnation, and
resignation. However, this book excavates an early modern
understanding of contentment as dynamic, protective, and
productive. While this concept has roots in classical and medieval
philosophy, contentment became newly significant because of the
English Reformation. Reformers explored contentedness as a means to
preserve the self and prepare the individual to endure and engage
the outside world. Their efforts existed alongside representations
and revisions of contentment by authors including Sidney, Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Milton. By examining Renaissance models of
contentment, this book explores alternatives to Calvinist despair,
resists scholarly emphasis on negative emotions, and reaffirms the
value of formal concerns to studies of literature, religion, and
affect.
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