Sensible flesh : on touch in early modern culture /

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""As histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general power of such a particular focus.""--Studies in English Literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harvey, Elizabeth D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Touch.
Senses and sensation.
Toucher.
Sens et sensations.
touch.
sensation.
senses.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Senses and sensation
Touch
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: The "Sense of All Senses"
  • 2 Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch
  • 3 "Handling Soft the Hurts": Sexual Healing and Manual Contact in Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queene, and All's Well That Ends Well
  • 4 The Subject of Touch: Medical Authority in Early Modern Midwifery
  • 5 The Touching Organ: Allegory, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Skin Envelope
  • 6 As Long as a Swan's Neck? The Significance of the "Enlarged" Clitoris for Early Modern Anatomy
  • 7 New World Contacts and the Trope of the "Naked Savage"
  • 8 Noli me tangere: Colonialist Imperatives and Enclosure Acts in Early Modern England
  • 9 Acting with Tact: Touch and Theater in the Renaissance
  • 10 Living in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
  • 11 Touch in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Sensual Ethics of Architecture
  • 12 The Touch of the Blind Man: The Phenomenology of Vividness in Italian Renaissance Art
  • Afterword: Touching Rhetoric
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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