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Passion's triumph over reason : a history of the moral imagination from Spenser to Rochester

Author: Christopher Tilmouth; Oxford University Press.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Christopher Tilmouth's study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control explores a series of philosophical authors in relation to poets and dramatists of the period 1580 to  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Tilmouth; Oxford University Press.
ISBN: 9780199212378 0199212376 9780199593040 0199593043
OCLC Number: 843367943
Description: [8], 414 s. ; 23 cm
Contents: 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
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Tilmouth's book features thorough and often insightful analysis * Jonathan Sircy, Spenser Review * Christopher Tilmouth has written one of the more engaging early modern studies in recent memory ... Read more...

 
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