Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster

Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion

Gail Kern Paster

384 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held e...

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