Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton |
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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
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $58.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionMichael 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 phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies.