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Feeling pleasures : the sense of touch in Renaissance England /

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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary. Each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to lose touch was to lose life itself. Alternativ...

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Main Author: Moshenska, Joe, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.
English poetry > 17th century > History and criticism.
Touch in literature.
Renaissance.

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