Reading the Early Modern Passions JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational “Alexander Maksik is a sorcerer

“Alexander Maksik is a sorcerer of the first order

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have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion

she demonstrates how these writers elaborate the interconnections between a comedy that affirms wholesome normalcy in the face of terror and a tragedy that finds something terribly wrong in the social order itself

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

Reading the Early Modern Passions JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational “Alexander Maksik is a sorcererHow 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