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Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England

2020 · rif. DD-V76X-F8IL — 2020 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England gathers essays from prominent scholars of English Renaissance literature and history who have made substantial contributions to the study of early modern embodiment historical phenomenology affect cognition memory and natural philosophy. It provides new interpretations of the geographic dimensions of early modern embodiment emphasizing the transactional and dynamic aspects of the relationship between body and world. The geographies of embodiment encompass both cognitive processes and cosmic environments and inner emotional states as well as affective landscapes. Rather than always being territorialized onto individual bodies ideas about early modern embodiment are varied both in their scope and in terms of their representation. Reflecting this variety this volume offers up a range of inquiries into how early modern writers accounted for the exchanges between the microcosm and macrocosm. It engages with Gail Kern Paster's groundbreaking scholarship on embodiment humoralism the passions and historical phenomenology throughout and offers new readings of Edmund Spenser William Shakespeare Thomas Nashe John Milton and others. Contributions consider the epistemiologies of navigation and cartography the significance of geohumoralism the ethics of self-mastery theories of early modern cosmology the construction of place memory and perceptions of an animate spirit world. Contents List of Figures List of Contributors 1. Introduction by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. 2. How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton by Michael Schoenfeldt 3. Hi Mho Ji Kudd: The Transformation of Thomas Stephens in Goa by Jonathan Gil Harris 4. Anatomy Cartography and the New World Body by Valerie Traub 5. Place and Memory: History Cognition Phenomenology by John Sutton 6. Meteorology Embodiment and Environment in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mary Thomas Crane 7. 'My Hand Would Dissolve Or Seem to Melt': Poetic Dissolution and Stoic Cosmology by Kristen Poole 8. Passions of the Flock by Julian Yates 9. Speaking of Faces: The Gestural Body in Measure for Measure by Elizabeth D. Harvey 10. Sleeping in Error in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book 1 by Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. 11. The Habitation of Airy Nothings in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mary Floyd-Wilson Afterword by Gail Kern Paster Index Oxford University Press hardcover