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A subtle, historically expansive reassessment of the changing connections among ideas of emotion, rhetoric, and literary narrative from the late 16th through the early 18th centuries. This finely wrought but clear literary and cultural history convincingly charts how literary narrative joined philosophical writing to define general understandings of the ""passions"" and the ""soul and mind"" themselves. * A. Galloway, CHOICE * Robinson's reconstruction of intellectual and literary histories from an extensive archive of theoretical material is both useful and impressive...some of the most rewarding passages of the book are found in his readings of literary texts * Michael Zechariah, The Seventeenth Century * Passion's Fictions straddles periods and disciplines, and offers a measured and learned engagement with philosophy, literary criticism, and the history of rhetoric, as well as affect theory and cognitive theory. * Jean E. Feerick, Shakespeare Quarterly *

Robinson's reconstruction of intellectual and literary histories from an extensive archive of theoretical material is both useful and impressive...some of the most rewarding passages of the book are found in his readings of literary texts * Michael Zechariah, The Seventeenth Century *

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Benedict S. Robinson is the author of Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (Palgrave, 2007) and the editor of John Webster's The White Devil (Arden, 2019). His essays have appeared in ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, SEL, and elsewhere. He is currently preparing an edition of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for Arden Shakespeare and writing a literary and cultural history of resentment, one part of which is forthcoming from PMLA.

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