| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Early modern literary geographies |
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Early modern literary geographies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 2: How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton -- 3: Hi Mho Ji Kudd: The Transformation of Thomas Stephens in Goa -- 4: Anatomy, Cartography, and the New World Body -- 4.1. Body, Land, Map -- 4.2. Anatomy Lessons -- 4.3. Voyage Illustrations and Costume Books -- 4.4. Ethnographic Maps -- 4.5. The Logic of the Grid -- 4.6. The New World Body |
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5: Place and Memory: History, Cognition, Phenomenology -- 5.1. Geographies of Mind in Place -- 5.2. Lifeworlds of Place in Early Modern England -- 5.3. Remembered and Imagined Places -- 6: Meteorology, Embodiment, and Environment in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 7: 'My Hand Would Dissolve, Or Seem to Melt': Poetic Dissolution and Stoic Cosmology -- 7.1. Stoic Physics -- 7.2. Melting and Dissolving in Early Modern Literature -- 7.3. Melting and Dissolving in the Shakespearean Canon -- 7.4. Cosmologics -- 8: Passions of the Flock -- 8.1. From Discipline to Ecology |
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8.2. Limit Cases and Primal Scenes -- 8.3. Hurtless Beasts -- 8.4. Passionate Regimes -- 8.5. Animetaphors -- 9: Speaking (of) Faces: The Gestural Body in Measure for Measure -- 9.1. Measure for Measure and Cephalic Gesture -- 9.2. Muscles and Facial Mobility -- 9.3. Will, Rhetoric, Gesture -- 9.4. Decapitation -- 10: Sleeping in Error in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 1 -- 11: The Habitation of Airy Nothings in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Afterword -- Index |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection provide new interpretations of the geographic dimensions of early modern embodiment, emphasizing the transactional and dynamic aspects of the relationship between body and world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 8, 2020) |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Cosmology in literature.
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Fairies in literature.
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Cosmology in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Fairies in literature
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Geography in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Floyd-Wilson, Mary, editor.
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Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192594273 |
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0192594273 |
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0191887102 |
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9780191887109 |
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9780192594280 |
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0192594281 |
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