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This book attempts to interrogate the literary, artistic and cultural output of early modern England. Following Constance Classen's view that understandings of the senses, and sensory experience itself, are culturally and historically contingent; it explores the culturally specific role of the senses in textual and aesthetic encounters in England. The book follows Joachim-Ernst Berendt's call for 'a democracy of the senses' in preference to the various sensory hierarchies that have often shaped theory and criticism. It argues that the playhouse itself challenged its audiences' reliance on the evidence of their own eyes, teaching early modern playgoers how to see and how to interpret the validity of the visual. The book offers an essay on each of the five senses, beginning and ending with two senses, taste and smell, that are often overlooked in studies of early modern culture. It investigates Robert Herrick's accounts in Hesperides of how the senses function during sexual pleasure and contact. The book also explores sensory experiences, interrogating textual accounts of the senses at night in writings from the English Renaissance. It offers a picture of early modern thought in which sensory encounters are unstable, suggesting ways in which the senses are influenced by the contexts in which they are experienced: at night, in states of sexual excitement, or even when melancholic. The book looks at the works of art themselves and considers the significance of the senses for early modern subjects attending a play, regarding a painting, and reading a printed volume.

English literature --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1500 - 1700 --- Classical Period --- Early Modern Period --- Technology & Engineering --- Agriculture --- General

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Senses and sensation in literature --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Romance-language literature --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature romane --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Romance literature --- -Senses and sensation in literature --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature romane

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The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise

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Tout au long du Moyen Âge, l'homme est pensé comme un microcosme entrant en relation, par l'intermédiaire du système hiérarchisé des cinq sens, avec le monde macrocosme. Les sens ont généré abondance de productions artistiques et d'écrits à visée scientifique, spirituelle, morale aussi bien que littéraire. Tous manifestent comment l'homme peut jouir d'une présence sensible au monde ou comment il peut s'exercer à contrôler et dépasser ses sens. Ce volume explore les cinq sens en tant que système organisé. L'approche pluridisciplinaire (littérature, histoire de l'art, musicologie, philosophie et théologie, histoire des sciences) permet de comprendre en quoi les cinq sens engagent tout à la fois une poétique, une esthétique et une éthique.

Middle Ages --- Senses and sensation --- Moyen Age --- Sens et sensations --- Historiography --- Congresses. --- History --- Congresses --- Historiographie --- Congrès --- Histoire --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Sense (Philosophy) --- Senses and sensation in art --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Civilization, Medieval