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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection

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Reading the Early Modern Passions JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational This book is a volumeHow translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held emotion to be hostile to reason and the production of scientific knowledge, why and how have the passions been lauded as windows to higher truths? Assessing the changing discourses of feeling and their