Katie Barclay: A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback ZCULT 'A cracker of a book'

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Katie Barclay: A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback ZCULT 'A cracker of a book'During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word "emotion", denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. "Emotion" ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of "passions" and "affections" continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious,