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Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

By:K. Craik
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403921925
eText ISBN:9780230206083
Edition:0
Copyright:2007
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.