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Holbrook, Peter
Holbrook, Peter
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Peter Holbrook This chapter advances a simple thesis, one bearing some connection, I think, to T. S. Eliot’s famous “dissociation of sensibility” argument: that is, that the development of the post-Shakespearean drama sees a drastic schematization, and simplification, of the representation of the emotions — of interior life generally. Eliot’s vaulting assertion was that human experience became a less complex and involved thing in the course of the seventeenth century. Literature, in particular the influence of John Milton (1608–74) and John Dryden (1631–1700) on English poetry, was the occasion for Eliot’s essay, but the argument really had more to do with a cultural history of secularization and rationalization, of the rise of science and reason, and, from Eliot’s perspective, the concomitant loss of a culture of faith and belief. For Eliot, the fall away from the world he imagined pre-English Civil War poets to have inhabited — in which thought and feeling...
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Date
2019
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Book chapter
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A cultural history of the emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age
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71-84
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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