Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England

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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England

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Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in English Renaissance literature. The notion of bodily humors in Galenic medicine provides poets with a compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies.

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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England by Michael C Schoenfeldt

Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in early modern English literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm of the period envisaged a self governed by humors, literally embodying inner emotion by locating and explaining human passion within a taxonomy of internal organs and fluids. It thus gave a profoundly material emphasis to behavioural phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies. In contrast to much work on the body which has emphasized its exuberant 'leakiness' as a principal of social liberation amid oppressive regimes, Schoenfeldt establishes the emancipatory value that the Renaissance frequently located not in moments of festive release, but in the exercise of regulation, temperance and self-control.
'… this study offers resourceful and inspired readings of central texts in English poetry, presented in elegant style and including some rather memorable witticisms' Anglia
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ISBN 13 9780521669023
ISBN 10 0521669022
Title Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
Author Michael C Schoenfeldt
Series Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture
Condition Non disponible
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2000-01-13
Number of pages 220
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