Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

• Author(s): K. Craik,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 200
• ISBN_10: 0230206085
  ISBN_13: 9780230206083
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.