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Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

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  • © 2007

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  1. Katharine A. Craik
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Word and the Flesh in Early Modern England

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 11-34

  4. Beneath the Skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the Experience of English Poetry

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 35-51

  5. Arming the Reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the Literature of Choler

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 52-72

  6. ‘These Spots are but the Letters’: John Donne and the Medicaments of Elegy

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 73-92

  7. Eating His Words: Thomas Coryat and the Art of Indigestion

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 93-114

  8. Touching Stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the Origins of English Pornography

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 115-134

  9. Afterword

    • Katharine A. Craik
    Pages 135-138

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 139-200
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About this book

How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.

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'Reading Sensations in Early Modern England is a slim volume, but a valuable one...its clear argument and elegant execution make it a rewarding read.' - Erin Sullivan, Medical History

About the author

KATHARINE A. CRAIK completed her doctoral research at Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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