Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book

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 phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies.Read More

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  • 0521669022
  • 9780521669023
  • Michael C. Schoenfeldt
  • 13 January 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 220
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