Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

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.

Author: K. Craik
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/06/2007
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.73w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781403921925

About the Author
KATHARINE A. CRAIK completed her doctoral research at Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK.