Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

✍ Scribed by Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period. To uncover how humoralism shapes textual, material, and aesthetic encounters for contemporary subjects in a broader sense than previous studies have pursued, the project brings together three principal areas of investigation: how the humoral body was evoked and embodied within the space of the early modern stage; how the materiality of an object can be understood as constructed within humoral discourse; and how individuals’ activities and pursuits can connote specific practices informed by humoralism. Across the book, contributors explore how diverse media and cultural practices are informed by humoralism. As a whole, the collection investigates alternative humoralities in order to illuminate both early modern works of art as well as the cultural moments of their production.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction—Everyday Humoralism
Bibliography
Part I: Performance and Embodiment
Chapter 2: Humoural Versification
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage
Bibliography
Chapter 4: “Great Annoyance to Their Mindes”: Humours, Intoxication, and Addiction in English Medical and Moral Discourses, 1550–1730
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Performing Pain
Bibliography
Chapter 6: A “Dummy Corpse Full of Bones and Entrails”: Staging Dismemberment in the Early Modern Playhouse
Bibliography
Part II: Art and Material Culture
Chapter 7: Elizabeth I’s Mettle: Metallic/Medallic Portraits
Medallic Portraits
Metallic Portraits
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Seeing Saints in the Forest of Arden: Melancholic Vision in As You Like It
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Humors, Fruit, and Botanical Art in Early Modern England
Bibliography
Chapter 10: The Humorality of Toys and Games in Early Modern English Domestic Tragedy
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Afterword—No One Is Ever Just Breathing or, a Sigh Is (Not) Just a Sigh
Bibliography
Index

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