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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England

Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton

Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England( )
Author: Schoenfeldt, Michael C.
Contribution by: Barton, Anne
Dollimore, Jonathan
Garber, Marjorie
Goldberg, Jonathan
Holland, Peter
McLuskie, Kate
Orgel, Stephen
Vickers, Nancy
Series title:Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-66902-3
Publication Date:Jan 2000
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $58.95
Book Description:

Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in English Renaissance literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm of the period envisaged a self governed by humors, literally embodying inner emotion by locating and explaining human passion within a taxonomy of internal organs and fluids. It thus gave a profoundly material emphasis to behavioral...
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Book Details
Pages:220
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.4 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm
Book Weight:0.31 Kilograms



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