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Article: Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Book Review)
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Paster, Gail Kern, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, eds. 2002. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $47.96 hc. $19.96 sc. 392 pp.
Reading the Early Modern Passions, a collection of essays edited by Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, signals its place on the cutting edge of a paradigm shift in early modern studies with the simple fact that, in a volume devoted to the study of emotion in the period, psychoanalysis is not mentioned until page 13, where it is subordinated to "historical phenomenology" and dismissed without much ado on the grounds of ...