Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion : Princeton University Press : 9780691203430 : 0691203431 : 05 Oct 2021 : An exploration of Stoicism's central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting ?powerful feeling? as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era?the period most polemically invested in emotion as art's mainspring?was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded th