Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

✍ Scribed by Katharine A. Craik (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
The Word and the Flesh in Early Modern England....Pages 11-34
Beneath the Skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the Experience of English Poetry....Pages 35-51
Arming the Reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the Literature of Choler....Pages 52-72
‘These Spots are but the Letters’: John Donne and the Medicaments of Elegy....Pages 73-92
Eating His Words: Thomas Coryat and the Art of Indigestion....Pages 93-114
Touching Stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the Origins of English Pornography....Pages 115-134
Afterword....Pages 135-138
Back Matter....Pages 139-200

✦ Subjects

British and Irish Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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