TY  - BOOK
AU  - Risinger,Jacob
TI  - Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion
SN  - 9780691223117
AV  - PR457 .R4562 2021.
U1  - 820.9145 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English literature-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Stoics in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A Vindication of the Rights of Men
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Altruism
KW  - An Essay on Man
KW  - Anacharsis
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Antipathy
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Apatheia
KW  - Apathy
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Bellum omnium contra omnes
KW  - Byronic hero
KW  - Character of the Happy Warrior
KW  - Classical language
KW  - Confidant
KW  - Contingency (philosophy)
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay)
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique
KW  - David Hume
KW  - Defamiliarization
KW  - Delusion
KW  - Descriptive poetry
KW  - Disenchantment
KW  - Effeminacy
KW  - Emotional detachment
KW  - Equanimity
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Expressivism
KW  - Falsity
KW  - Fatalism
KW  - Fears in Solitude
KW  - Gentlewoman
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Houyhnhnm
KW  - Hypocrisy
KW  - Idealism
KW  - Idealization
KW  - Impartiality
KW  - Inductive reasoning
KW  - Indulgence
KW  - Intentionality
KW  - Invective
KW  - Irony
KW  - Lord Byron
KW  - Lyrical Ballads
KW  - Meditations
KW  - Modern Moral Philosophy
KW  - Moral Landscape
KW  - Moral absolutism
KW  - Moralia
KW  - Morality
KW  - Nihil admirari
KW  - Noble savage
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Objectivity (philosophy)
KW  - On Justice
KW  - Overreaction
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pity
KW  - Poetic diction
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pragmatism
KW  - Presentism (literary and historical analysis)
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Radical criticism
KW  - Rationality
KW  - Relativism
KW  - Religiosity
KW  - Res publica
KW  - Ridicule
KW  - Sage (philosophy)
KW  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
KW  - Satire
KW  - Selfishness
KW  - Sentimentalism (literature)
KW  - Sentimentality
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Soliloquy
KW  - Solipsism
KW  - Sophism
KW  - Sophistication
KW  - State of nature
KW  - Stiff upper lip
KW  - Stoic physics
KW  - Stoicism
KW  - Sublime (philosophy)
KW  - Tabula rasa
KW  - The Anatomy of Melancholy
KW  - The Dispossessed
KW  - The Power of Sympathy
KW  - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
KW  - Thought
KW  - Truth
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Value (ethics)
KW  - Weltschmerz
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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