Abstract: A continuation of productive investigations into the history of emotions, this book examines attempts to rehabilitate literary language from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment using the criterion of emotion, both in the realm of theoretical speculation and practical implementation.
Keyword: Littérature de la Renaissance, littérature de l’âge classique, littérature des Lumières, histoire des émotions, histoire de la rhétorique, histoire de la spiritualité, stylistique, poétique