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Reading sensations in early modern England
- Author
- Craik, Katharine A.
- Title
- Reading sensations in early modern England / Katharine A. Craik.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Description
- xi, 200 p. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006051588-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006051588-d.html <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006051588-t.html
- Uniform series
- Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Notes
- This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.
- Contents
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- The word and the flesh in early modern England
- Beneath the skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the experience of English poetry
- Arming the reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the literature of choler
- 'These spots are but the letters': John Donne and the medicaments of elegy
- Eating his words: Thomas Coryat and the art of indigestion
- Touching stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the origins of English pornography.
- Kinsey subjects
- Social conditions--Early modern, 1500-1700--England. Writers. Emotions. Psychology.
- ISBN
- 9781403921925 (cloth) 140392192X (cloth)