CONNOTATIONS OF “SELF-LOVE” IN THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE ON THE PASSIONS

While the more frequent historiographic tendency is to associate the early modern occurrences of “self-love” in English texts with the Augustinian template (the “infected love” of a postlapsarian “wicked will”), this paper aims to highlight several instances of a different usage. The seventeenth-cen...

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Main Author: Sorana Corneanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University Press 2022-02-01
Series:University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
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Online Access:http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/soranacorneanu.pdf