The senses in early modern England : 1558-1660 /

The senses in early modern England : 1558-1660 / edited by Simon Smith, Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny. - 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-233) and index.

Tracing a sense -- Staging taste / "Dove-like looks" and "serpents eyes" : staging visual clues and early modern aspiration / "Filthie groping and uncleane handlings" : an examination of touching moments in dance of court and courtship / "Thou art like a puni-Barber (new come to the trade) thou pick'st our eares too deepe" : barbery, earwax and snip-snaps / Seeing smell / The senses in context -- Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses / "Did we lie downe, because 'was night?" : John Donne, George Chapman and the senses of night in the 1590s / Love melancholy and the senses in Mary Wroth's works / Aesthetic sensory expeiences -- "I see no instruments, nor hands that play" : Antony and Cleopatra and visual musical experience / "Gazing in hir glasse of vaineglorie" : negotiating vanity / "Tickling the senses with sinful delight" : the pleasure of reading comedies in early modern England / Afterword / Lucy Munro -- Jackie Watson -- Darren Royston -- Eleanor Decamp -- Holly Dugan -- Natalie K. Eschenbaum -- Susan Wiseman -- Aurélie Griffin -- Simon Smith -- Faye Tudor -- Hannah August -- Farah Karim-Cooper. Part I. Part II. Part III.

Open Access

9780719091582 0719091586 9781526146465 1526146460

2015373288


Englisch, ...


1500 - 1700


English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Senses and sensation in literature.
Senses and sensation in literature.
English literature--Early modern.
Sinne
Kunst
Kultur
Literatur


England


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

PR408.S46 / S46 2015

820.9/003