The five senses in medieval and early modern England /

These essays offer a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kern-Stähler, Annette, 1971- (Editor ), Busse, Beatrix (Editor ), Boer, Wietse de (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 44.
Temas:
1100-1700
Senses and sensation in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Sens et sensations dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
English literature > Middle English
Senses and sensation in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on the Editors
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Sensing and Understanding
  • Chapter 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery asMetaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies
  • Chapter 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture
  • Part 2 Vision and Its Distortion
  • Chapter 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities
  • Chapter 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke's and Margaret Cavendish's Epistemologies of the Senses
  • Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Part 3 The Perilous Senses
  • Chapter 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English "Marvels of the East"
  • Chapter 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif's Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses
  • Chapter 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost
  • Part 4 The Multisensual
  • Chapter 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual
  • Chapter 10 'Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not'. The Five Senses in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments
  • Part 5 The Theatre as Sensory Experience
  • Chapter 11 Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays
  • Chapter 12 The Sensory Body in Shakespeare's Theatres
  • Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
  • Index Nominum.

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