Sensible Flesh : : On Touch in Early Modern Culture / / ed. by Elizabeth D. Harvey.
This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the frequently disregarded lexicons of tactility...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: The "Sense of All Senses"
- 2 Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch
- 3 "Handling Soft the Hurts": Sexual Healing and Manual Contact in Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queene, and All's Well That Ends Well
- 4 The Subject of Touch: Medical Authority in Early Modern Midwifery
- 5 The Touching Organ: Allegory, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Skin Envelope
- 6 As Long as a Swan's Neck? The Significance of the "Enlarged" Clitoris for Early Modern Anatomy
- 7 New World Contacts and the Trope of the "Naked Savage"
- 8 Noli me tangere: Colonialist Imperatives and Enclosure Acts in Early Modern England
- 9 Acting with Tact: Touch and Theater in the Renaissance
- 10 Living in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
- 11 Touch in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Sensual Ethics of Architecture
- 12 The Touch of the Blind Man: The Phenomenology of Vividness in Italian Renaissance Art
- Afterword: Touching Rhetoric
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments