The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558-1660

Herausgeber: Smith, Simon; Kenny, Amy; Watson, Jacqueline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. Examining canonical and less familiar literary works alongside early modern texts ranging from medical treatises to conduct manuals via puritan polemic and popular ballads, the collection offers a new view of the senses in early modern England. The volume offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, each relating works of art to their cultural moments, whilst elsewhere the volume considers the senses collectively in particular cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the very acts of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. This book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, to those working in sensory studies, and to anyone interested in the art and life of early modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780719091582
• ISBN-10: 0719091586
• Artikelnr.: 42375395

Autorenporträt

Simon Smith is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and Junior Research Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford Jackie Watson has been an Associate Tutor at Birkbeck, University of London Amy Kenny is a Lecturer at University of California, Riverside

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Simon Smith, Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny Part I: Tracing a sense 1. Staging taste
Lucy Munro 2. 'Dove like looks' and 'serpents eyes': staging visual clues and early modern aspiration
Jackie Watson 3. 'Filthy groping and unclean handlings': an examination of touching moments in dance of court and courtship
Darren Royston 4. 'Thou art like a punie
Barber (new come to the trade) thou pick'st our eares too deepe': barbery, ear
wax and snip
snaps
Eleanor Decamp 5. Seeing smell
Holly Dugan Part II: The senses in context 6. Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses
Natalie K. Eschenbaum 7. 'Did we lie down because it was night?': the senses of night in the 1590s
Susan Wiseman 8. Love melancholy and the senses in Mary Wroth's work
Aurélie Griffin Part III: Aesthetic sensory experiences 9. 'I see no instruments, nor hands that play': Antony and Cleopatra and visual musical experience
Simon Smith 10. 'Gazing in hir glasse of vaineglorie': negotiating vanity
Faye Tudor 11. 'Tickling the senses with sinful delight': the pleasure of reading comedies in early modern England
Hannah August Afterword
Farah Karim
Cooper Bibliography Index