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.

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.

• Introduction PART I: Outward Soul 1: Passion's Intentions 2: The Accidents of the Soul PART II: The Rhetoric of the Passions and the Sciences of the Mind 3: The Rhetoric of the Passions 4: The Springs of the Soul 5: The Art of Moving PART III: Passion's Fictions 6: Passion's Fictions

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.

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.

• Introduction PART I: Outward Soul 1: Passion's Intentions 2: The Accidents of the Soul PART II: The Rhetoric of the Passions and the Sciences of the Mind 3: The Rhetoric of the Passions 4: The Springs of the Soul 5: The Art of Moving PART III: Passion's Fictions 6: Passion's Fictions

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.

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.

• Introduction PART I: Outward Soul 1: Passion's Intentions 2: The Accidents of the Soul PART II: The Rhetoric of the Passions and the Sciences of the Mind 3: The Rhetoric of the Passions 4: The Springs of the Soul 5: The Art of Moving PART III: Passion's Fictions 6: Passion's Fictions