Passion''s Fictions From Shakespeare to Richardson - Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind

Explores the history of literature and narrative in relation to early modern ideas of the passions, and argues that literature and rhetoric came to play a central role in knowing and conceiving of the passions.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART I: Outward Soul


• 1: Passion's Intentions


• 2: The Accidents of the Soul


• PART II: The Rhetoric of the Passions and the Sciences of the Mind


• 3: The Rhetoric of the Passions


• 4: The Springs of the Soul


• 5: The Art of Moving


• PART III: Passion's Fictions


• 6: Passion's Fictions

About the author

Benedict S. Robinson is the author of Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (Palgrave, 2007) and the editor of John Webster's The White Devil (Arden, 2019). His essays have appeared in ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, SEL, and elsewhere. He is currently preparing an edition of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for Arden Shakespeare and writing a literary and cultural history of resentment, one part of which is forthcoming from PMLA.

Summary

Explores the history of literature and narrative in relation to early modern ideas of the passions, and argues that literature and rhetoric came to play a central role in knowing and conceiving of the passions.

Additional text

Passion's Fictions straddles periods and disciplines, and offers a measured and learned engagement with philosophy, literary criticism, and the history of rhetoric, as well as affect theory and cognitive theory.

Product details

• Authors: Benedict S. Robinson, Benedict S. (Associate Professor of Engl Robinson, Robinson Benedict S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2021
• EAN: 9780198869177
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886917-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights