Stoic romanticism and the ethics of emotion.

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"At first glance, Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for its expression, adopting "powerful feeling" as the bedrock of poetry itself. In fact, as th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Risinger, Jacob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Stoics in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme.
Stoïcisme dans la littérature.
romanticism (form of expression)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
English literature
Romanticism
Stoics in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Stoic Moral Sentimentalism from Shaftesbury to Wollstonecraft
  • Chapter 2. Wordsworth and Godwin in "Frozen Regions"
  • Chapter 3. Coleridge, Lyric Askesis, and Living Form
  • Chapter 4. The True Social Art: Byron and the Character of Stoicism
  • Chapter 5. Stoic Futurity in Sarah Scott and Mary Shelley
  • Chapter 6. Emerson, Stoic Cosmopolitanism, and the Conduct of Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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