Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

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ISBN-13: 9781349515677 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication date: 01/01/2007 Series: Early Modern Literature in History Edition description: 1st ed. 2007 Pages: 200 Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.

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