Reading sensations in early modern England / Katharine A. Craik.

  • Craik, Katharine A.
Date:
2007
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Publication/Creation

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Physical description

xi, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Notes

This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body.

Bibliographic information

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781403921925
  • 140392192X