Title The five senses in medieval and early modern England / edited by Annette Kern-Stähler, Beatrix Busse, Wietse de Boer

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) Series Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 44- 2016 Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 44. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Sensing and Understanding -- Chapter 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery asMetaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies -- Chapter 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture -- Part 2 Vision and Its Distortion -- Chapter 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities -- Chapter 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke's and Margaret Cavendish's Epistemologies of the Senses -- Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- Part 3 The Perilous Senses -- Chapter 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English "Marvels of the East" -- Chapter 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif's Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses -- Chapter 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost -- Part 4 The Multisensual -- Chapter 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual -- Chapter 10 'Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not'. The Five Senses in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments -- Part 5 The Theatre as Sensory Experience -- Chapter 11 Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays -- Chapter 12 The Sensory Body in Shakespeare's Theatres -- Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods -- Index Nominum Summary These essays offer a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2016) Subject Senses and sensation in literature. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Middle English Senses and sensation in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Kern-Stähler, Annette, 1971- editor. Busse, Beatrix, editor. Boer, Wietse de, editor. LC no. 2016023615 ISBN 9789004315495 9004315497

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