| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 44- 2016
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 44.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation in literature.
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Senses and sensation in literature. |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
1100-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kern-Stähler, Annette, 1971- editor.
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Busse, Beatrix, editor.
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Boer, Wietse de, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Five senses in medieval and early modern England. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004315488 (DLC) 2016008197 |
| ISBN |
9789004315495 (electronic book) |
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9004315497 (electronic book) |
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9789004315488 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9004315489 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004315495 |
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