{"product_id":"bodies-and-selves-in-early-modern-england-physiology-and-inwardness-in-spenser-shakespeare-herbert-and-milton-paperback-9780521669023","title":"Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England; Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Paperback) 9780521669023","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBodies and Selves in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhysiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the close relationship between inner psychology and bodily processes as represented in English Renaissance poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael C. Schoenfeldt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521669023, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 January 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 1.3 cm, 0.31 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… this study offers resourceful and inspired readings of central texts in English poetry, presented in elegant style and including some rather memorable witticisms.' Anglia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMichael 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bodies of rule: embodiment and interiority in early modern England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fortifying inwardness: Spenser's castle of moral health\u003cbr\u003e 3. The matter of inwardness: Shakespeare's Sonnets\u003cbr\u003e 4. Devotion and digestion: George Herbert's consuming subject\u003cbr\u003e 5. Temperance and temptation: the alimental vision in Paradise Lost\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002146607384,"sku":"9780521669023","price":32.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521669023i_0db2124e-de95-4d53-a515-5d558e596afe.jpg?v=1691379707","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bodies-and-selves-in-early-modern-england-physiology-and-inwardness-in-spenser-shakespeare-herbert-and-milton-paperback-9780521669023","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}