Texts examined include those of Sidney, Milton, and many others. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-271) and index
Counselling the unstable self: conflicting emotional frameworks, persuasion, and inwardness -- Unyielding judge of gentle physician? the friend as counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Poetry as orator and physician in Sidney's Defence -- The politics of emotion in hospitality, rivalry, and erotic love: Sidney's New Arcadia -- Anger as an instrument of justice: the vehement versus the mild style of Milton's early prose -- Emotion as defined by the discourse of hounor: spiritual warfare and rhetorical agon in Paradise Lost -- Seventeenth-Century protestant rhetoric: cause and cure of fallen emotion -- Marriage as a site of counsel in marriage handbooks, Milton's divorce pamphlets, and Paradise Lost
