The senses in early modern England, 1558-1660
This book attempts to interrogate the literary, artistic and cultural output of early modern England. Following Constance Classen's view that understandings of the senses, and sensory experience itself, are culturally and historically contingent; it explores the culturally specific role of the...
| Otros Autores: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press
2020
Manchester, UK : 2015. [2020] |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430299006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Note on the text
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Tracing a sense
- 1 Staging taste
- 2 'Dove-like looks' and 'serpents eyes'
- 3 'Filthie groping and uncleane handlings'
- 4 'Thou art like a punie-Barber (new come to the trade) thou pick'st our eares too deepe'
- 5 Seeing smell
- Part II The senses in context
- 6 Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses
- 7 'Did we lie downe, because 'twas night?'
- 8 Love melancholy and the senses in Mary Wroth's works
- Part III Aesthetic sensory experiences
- 9 'I see no instruments, nor hands that play'
- 10 'Gazing in hir glasse of vaineglorie'
- 11 'Tickling the senses with sinful delight'
- Afterword
- Select bibliography
- Index
