Literature and the senses /

"Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kern-Stähler, Annette, 1971- (Editor), Robertson, Elizabeth Ann, 1951- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Literature and the senses: an introduction / Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson
  • Looking at faces: Geoffrey Chaucer, Hilary Mantel, and Alexis Wright / Stephanie Trigg
  • Visualizing the unseen in the Victorian ghost story / Zoë Lehmann Imfeld
  • Descent, spirit, heart, senses / Sue Zemka
  • Partial sight, dependency, and open poetic form: a creative practice / Nuala Watt
  • 'A lowde voys clepyng': voice-hearing, revelation, and imagination / Corinne Saunders
  • Attending to sound in early modern literature: Whythorne, Butler, and Bacon / Simon Jackson
  • acoustics, echoes, and whispering galleries in Romantic literature / Stacey Mcdowell
  • The roar on the other side of silence: sound, hearing, and social change in Victorian literature / Anne-Julia Zwierlein
  • A poetics of silence: deafness, poetics, and the fate of the senses / Michael Davidson
  • Festering lilies: seeing and smelling gender and race in Renaissance art and poetry / Holly Dugan
  • Bartholomew Fair's olfactory cross-mappings: smell, place, memory / Isabel Karremann
  • A sanitary sense of smell: olfaction and bodily boundaries in Victorian writing / Ursula Kluwick
  • Olfactory futures in Bipoc speculative fiction / Hsuan L. Hsu
  • Reading 'ful savourly': taste and good taste in later medieval English literature / Mary C. Flannery
  • Tastelessness: lack and loss of Savour in the medieval poetic imagination / Jamie C. Fumo
  • A taste of 'sweet music': writing (through) the senses in early modern England / Simon Smith
  • Tasting with words in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun / Vanessa Guignery
  • The taste of revolution / Zoë Skoulding
  • Contact, conduct, and tactile networks: touch and its social functions in Middle English verse romance / Hannah Piercy
  • Touch and the sensible in the Play of Mary Magdalene / Mark Amsler
  • Histories of the human hand: Huxley and Isherwood's Jacob's Hands and Modernist manual culture / Abbie Garrington
  • Touching wounds: violence and the art of 'feeling' / Santanu Das
  • Sensology and Enargeia / Richard G. Newhauser
  • Bearing the word: speech scrolls, touch, and the Carthusian Miscellany / Sarah Stanbury
  • Multisensory entanglements in Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Mirja Lobnik
  • Salt taste of the sea: the multisensorial beach in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Charles Simmons's Salt Water / Virginia Richter.