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'A valuable and timely contribution to the burgeoning study of the history of emotions, Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature situates itself very effectively within this field and makes a strong case for the importance of contentment both as an emotion itself and as a fertile discursive territory in the English Renaissance. Paul Zajac advances our understanding by showing how important the positive emotion of contentment - overlapping with neo-Stoic ethics, but not the same - is to reformed Christian thinking.' Mary Ann Lund, Associate Professor in Renaissance English Literature, University of Leicester 'Paul Zajac assembles here a remarkable archive of contentment for the early modern period. His wealth of primary sources, his elegant negotiation of spiritual and political discourses of the self, and his bold analyses of a startling range of dramatic and poetic genres make Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature essential reading in the scholarship on literature, religion, and the history of emotions.' Heather Hirschfeld, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 'essential reading for any scholar interested in the role of affect in the shaping of English Renaissance literature and culture.' Mathew R. Martin, Renaissance and Reformation

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Paul Joseph Zajac is Associate Professor of English at McDaniel College. His scholarly articles have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, Studies in English Literature, Studies in Philology, and Philological Quarterly, among others.

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