Feeling pleasures : the sense of touch in Renaissance England /
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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Touching the past
- 'A sensible touching, feeling and groping': metaphor and sensory experience in the English reformation
- 'The lightest and the largest term': Lancelot Andrewes and the variousness of touch
- 'Attactu Nullo': touching the Gods, from Lucretius to Shakespeare
- 'Feeling pleasures': allegory and intimacy in The faerie queene
- Touching the beautiful: the feeling of artworks in the European Renaissance
- 'A sorrow, soft and agreeable': philosophies of tickling
- 'Every where environ'd, and incessantly touch'd': natural philosophies of feeling in seventeenth-century England
- 'Transported touch': the experience of feeling in Paradise lost
- 'Like rain falling on sand or hair dip'd in water': metaphor and the Chinese art of feeling
- Conslusion: The touch of the future.