What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understand

This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development

How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, h

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boun