The senses in early modern England : 1558-1660 / edited by Simon Smith, Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny.
Material type: TextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780719091582
- 0719091586
- 9781526146465
- 1526146460
- 820.9/003 23
- PR408.S46 S46 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-233) and index.
Part I. Tracing a sense -- Staging taste / Lucy Munro -- "Dove-like looks" and "serpents eyes" : staging visual clues and early modern aspiration / Jackie Watson -- "Filthie groping and uncleane handlings" : an examination of touching moments in dance of court and courtship / Darren Royston -- "Thou art like a puni-Barber (new come to the trade) thou pick'st our eares too deepe" : barbery, earwax and snip-snaps / Eleanor Decamp -- Seeing smell / Holly Dugan -- Part II. The senses in context -- Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses / Natalie K. Eschenbaum -- "Did we lie downe, because 'was night?" : John Donne, George Chapman and the senses of night in the 1590s / Susan Wiseman -- Love melancholy and the senses in Mary Wroth's works / Aurélie Griffin -- Part III. Aesthetic sensory expeiences -- "I see no instruments, nor hands that play" : Antony and Cleopatra and visual musical experience / Simon Smith -- "Gazing in hir glasse of vaineglorie" : negotiating vanity / Faye Tudor -- "Tickling the senses with sinful delight" : the pleasure of reading comedies in early modern England / Hannah August -- Afterword / Farah Karim-Cooper.
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