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Author Craik, Katharine A.

Title Reading sensations in early modern England / Katharine Craik
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2007]
©2007

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Description xi, 200 pages ; 22 cm
Series Early modern literature in history
Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Contents 1. The word and the flesh in early modern England -- 2. Beneath the skin : George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the experience of English poetry -- 3. Arming the reader : Sir Philip Sidney and the literature of choler -- 4. 'These spots are but the letters' : John Donne and the medicaments of elegy -- 5. Eating his words : Thomas Coryat and the art of indigestion -- 6. Touching stories : Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the origins of English pornography
Summary "This book explores the power of literature to affect, for better or worse, readers' minds, bodies and souls. Considering texts by a broad range of early modern writers, Katharine A. Craik explores the ways in which literature not only inflamed the emotions, but also transformed the contours of the material body."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
English literature -- Psychological aspects.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Literature and morals.
Mind and body.
Pornography -- Great Britain -- History.
Reader-response criticism.
Reading -- Physiological aspects.
Reading -- Psychological aspects.
Reading, Psychology of.
LC no. 2006051588
ISBN 140392192X (hbk.)
9781403921925 (hbk.)