Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern CultureElizabeth D. Harvey University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 - 320 من الصفحات This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the frequently disregarded lexicons of tactility that lie behind and beneath early modern discursive constructions of eroticism, knowledge, and art. For the early moderns, touch was the earliest and most fundamental sense. Frequently aligned with bodily pleasure and sensuality, it was suspect; at the same time, it was associated with the authoritative disciplines of science and medicine, and even with religious knowledge and artistic creativity. |
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The Sense of All Senses | 1 |
Taming the Contagious | 22 |
Sexual Healing and Manual | 39 |
Medical Authority in Early Modern | 62 |
Allegory Anatomy and the Renaissance | 81 |
As Long as a Swans Neck? The Significance of the Enlarged | 103 |
New World Contacts and the Trope of | 125 |
Colonialist Imperatives and Enclosure Acts | 141 |
Touch and Theater in the Renaissance | 159 |
Margaret Cavendishs The Convent | 187 |
Touching Rhetoric | 243 |
List of Contributors | 309 |