Passion's triumph over reason : a history of the moral imagination from Spenser to Rochester / Christopher Tilmouth.
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Governance and the passions
- The rise and fall of libertinism.
- 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
- 6. Hobbes : fear, power, and the passions
- 7. The restoration ethos of libertinism
- 8. Rochester : the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinism.
