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Document Type: | Book |
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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 |
Responsibility: | Christopher Tilmouth. |
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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 ... an impressive display of erudition combined with incisive and often savvy readings of a number of literary and philosophical texts * Ake Bergvall, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History * a lucid, thorough account of changing attitudes toward the passions in England from the late sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries...Tilmouth's historical narrative is comprehensive, and he treats a usefully broad range of literary and moral psychological texts...Tilmouth's work will help bolster a line of scholarship that is truly interdisciplinary in its treatment of moral philosophy and (what we now call) literature. * Amelia A. Zurcher, The Review of English Studies * Tilmouth's Passion's Triumph over Reason tells a more familiar story but in such comprehensive detail and with such a well-informed reading of a vast diversity of literary texts that it will prove useful to a wide array of scholars from beginning to advanced. * Catherine Gimelli Martin, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * As individual expository inquiries into the reason-passion relations, Tilmouth's chapters are brilliant pieces of scholarship: meticulous, detailed, knowledgeable, patient, and philosophically penetrating. ... Passion's Triumph over Reason is a first-rate achievement that repays close study. It is a fine book to think with (or against). Its broad vision can explain how libertinism emerged in the late seventeenth century, and it is a learned corrective toaccounts that highlight only the rise of rationalism throughout the Enlightenment. * Tzachi Zamir, Renaissance Quarterly * This is a splendid work of intellectual history; and Rochester, in particular, may have found his best critic * Thomas Macfaul, Notes and Queries Journal * eloquently outlined... Tilmouth moves us into new and exciting territory ... in this excellent, groundbreaking study. * Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement * a learned and cohesive exploration of major cultural interpretations of passion and reason...Erudite and thought-provoking. * Sheila Cavanagh, Modern Language Review * Read more...

