Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Book review)

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Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Ed. by GAIL KERN PASTER, KATHERINE ROWE, and MARY FLOYD-WILSON. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. vi + 384 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8122-1872-8.

When we read a restrained early modern elegy written by a mother lamenting the loss of a child, or watch the characters in a Renaissance comedy laugh at one another's misfortunes, do we understand these emotions in the same ways as their authors did? Were the feelings of the seventeenth-century poet similar to those of a modern parent, but ...

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