Title Passion's triumph over reason : a history of the moral imagination from Spenser to Rochester / Christopher Tilmouth

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (414 pages) Contents Governance and the passions -- The rise and fall of libertinism Summary Christopher Tilmouth presents an accomplished study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control in the literature and moral thought of the late 16th and 17th centuries (1580 to 1680) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-398) and index Notes Print version record Subject Self-control. Emotions. Conduct of life. Libertinism. Self-control in literature. ethics (philosophical concept) PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. Conduct of life Emotions Libertinism Self-control in literature Self-control Emoties. Ethische aspecten. Bellettrie. Engeland. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781435621534 1435621530 9780191526435 0191526436 9780191707254 0191707252

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