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Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion / Jacob Risinger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 1 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780691223117
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9145 23
LOC classification:
  • PR457 .R4562 2021.
  • PR451
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion.Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform.Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization.
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Frontmatter -- 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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An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion.Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform.Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization.

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In English.

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