Discourses of anger in the early modern period / / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Anita Traninger.

• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.,; Traninger, Anita,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Early modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one’s own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was seen a...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 1 Introduction: Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Anita Traninger
• 2 Feeling Rage: The Transformation of the Concept of Anger in Eighteenth Century Germany / Johannes F. Lehmann
• 3 Neo-Stoicism as an Antidote to Public Violence before Lipsius’s De constantia: Johann Weyer’s (Wier’s) Anger Therapy, De ira morbo (1577) / Karl A.E. Enenkel
• 4 Anger Management and the Rhetoric of Authenticity in Montaigne’s De la colère (ii, 31) / Anita Traninger
• 5 Neostoic Anger: Lipsius’s Reading and Use of Seneca’s Tragedies and De ira / Jan Papy
• 6 Descartes’ Notion of Anger: Aspects of a Possible History of its Premises / Michael Krewet
• 7 Holy Desperation and Sanctified Wrath: Anger in Puritan Thought / David M. Barbee
• 8 Anger and its Limits in the Ethical Philosophy of Giovanni Pontano / John Nassichuk
• 9 Northern Anger: Early Modern Debates on Berserkers / Bernd Roling
• 10 Anger and the Unity of Philosophy: Interlocking Discourses of Natural and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment / Tamás Demeter
• 11 Iustas in iras? Perspectives on Anger as a Driving Force in Neo-Latin Epic / Christian Peters
• 12 Epic Anger in La Gerusalemme liberata: Rinaldo’s Irascibility and Tasso’s Allegoria della Gerusalemme / Betül Dilmac
• 13 ‘In Zoren zu wütiger Rach’: Angry Women and Men in the German Drama of the Reformation Period / Barbara Sasse Tateo
• 14 Pierre Corneilles’s Cinna ou la clémence d’Auguste in Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Descartes, Le Moyne, Senault) / Jakob Willis
• 15 Visual Representations of Medea’s Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and Rubens / Maria Berbara
• 16 Negotiating with ‘Spirits of Brimstone and Salpetre’: Seventeenth Century French Political Officials and Their Practices and Representations of Anger / Tilman Haug
• 17 Narratives of Reconciliation in Early Modern England: Between Oblivion, Clemency and Forgiveness / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
• 18 Royal Wrath: Curbing the Anger of the Sultan / N. Zeynep Yelçe
• 19 Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture / Paolo Santangelo
• Index nominum.