Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhius; Part I Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Agency: Passion and intersubjectivity in early modern literature, Christopher Tilmouth; Affective physics: affectus in Spinoza’s Ethica, Russ Leo; Donne’s passions: emotion, agency and language, Brian Cummings. Part II Embodiment, Cognition, Identity: Melancholy, passions and identity in the Renaissance, Angus Gowland; Montaigne’s soul, Felicity Green; Uncertain knowing, blind vision, and active passivity: subjectivity, sensuality and emotion in Milton’s epistemology, Katharine Fletcher. Part III Politics, Affects, Friendship: Friendship and freedom of speech in the work of Fulke Greville, Freya Sierhuis; A passion for the past: the politics of nostalgia on the early Jacobean stage, Isabel Karremann; ’Not truth but image maketh passion’: Hobbes on instigation and appeasing, Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Part IV Religion, Devotion, Theology: ’A sensible touching, feeling and groping’: metaphor and sensory experience in the English Reformation, Joe Moshenska; ’Tears of passion’ and ’inordinate lamentation’: complicated grief in Donne and Augustine, Katrin Ettenhuber; Passions, politics and subjectivity in Philip Massinger’s The Emperor of the East, Adrian Streete. Part V Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions: The fallacy of ’that within’: Hamlet meets Wittgenstein, Daniella Jancsó; ’The greatest share of endless pain’: the spectral sacramentality of pain in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Björn Quiring; ’Not passion’s slave’: Hamlet, Descartes and the passions, Stephan Laqué; Afterword, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor of English at the University of York, UK. Freya Sierhuis is Anniversary Research Lecturer at the University of York, UK.

Reviews

'... richly learned essays ... such a volume is to be welcomed by all of us engaged in the history of the emotions.' Renaissance Quarterly '... a remarkably wide-ranging and insightful volume ... a rich and important contribution not only to debates about the passions and subjectivity, but to the broader fields of early modern ethics, politics, philosophy, and theology.' Renaissance Studies '... well worth consulting for anyone interested in the passions in early modern thought, literature, and history.' Parergon