Reading the Early Modern Passions JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational With their emphasis on the

With their emphasis on the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter

and others limit women’s rights and choices during birth

and a new way of framing the issue that provides valuable new insights into the political

have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion

Reading the Early Modern Passions JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational With their emphasis on theHow translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held emotion to be hostile to reason and the production of scientific knowledge, why and how have the passions been lauded as windows to higher truths? Assessing the changing discourses of feeling and their