Reading Sensations in Early Modern England
Description
How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshModern18th CenturySemiotics & TheorySocial SciencePoetryLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsRenaissanceAnthropologyCultural & Social
2007Book
Author(s)KATHARINE A. CRAIK
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403921925
LanguageEnglish
