Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience. Memorable instances of this tendency include the representation of love as a schoolroom exercise conducted under the disciplinary gaze of the mistress, melancholy as a process of gradual decline like the declension

This interdisciplinary study argues that the intersection of pedagogical and affective language in Renaissance literature shows that emotion was conceived as a conventional practice.

Books about The academy of eloquence, 1654. A Scolar Press facsimile

"Many of the same ancient authors that appear in The Painting of the Ancients (1638), his English translation of his De pictura veterum (1637), also figure in his annotations to Sidney. Like Sidney's Defence of Poesie, Junius was composing a defense of art against attacks by puritans and other iconoclasts.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read these sources direct.