Literature : The solicitation of the passions
Book chapter
Holbrook, Peter. (2020). Literature : The solicitation of the passions. In In Lynch, Andrew and Broomhall, Susan (Ed.). The Routledge history of emotions in Europe : 1100-1700 pp. 406-418 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315190778-32
Authors | Holbrook, Peter |
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Editors | Lynch, Andrew and Broomhall, Susan |
Abstract | This chapter explores some ways in which the passions have been depicted in European literature, across a vast stretch of time. The long quarrel between literature and philosophy has many dimensions, but the different valuation placed on the emotions by each is at the bottom of it. Literature’s value, Samuel Johnson supposed, was that it conveyed knowledge – dealt not with one-off, transitory phenomena but permanent and universal types. The relation between literature and reality or experience is Cervantes’s overarching concern in Don Quixote. The absurd and fantastical romances beloved of the old knight are contrasted with the actuality of his life, with the bareness of everyday existence in rural Spain generally. The extended joke of the book depends on the mismatch between Don Quixote’s romance-fantasy life and the empirical world in which these fantasies actually play out. |
Page range | 406-418 |
Year | 2020 |
Book title | The Routledge history of emotions in Europe : 1100-1700 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London, United Kingdom |
Series | The Routledge histories |
ISBN | 9781315190778 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315190778-32 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85127681496 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
2019 | |
Online | 12 Jul 2019 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8q18z/literature-the-solicitation-of-the-passions
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