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

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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

• 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)