Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914

Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914
Author: Katie Barclay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000395421

This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1602 and 1714. The study examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture. Sources include letters, diaries, legal papers, institutional records, newspapers, science and philosophical writings, literature and art from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of history and literature.

Carnal Reading

Carnal Reading
Author: Joseph Pappa
Publisher: University of Delaware
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1611490057

The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have made due with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. Chapters explore the enthusiasm inspired by religious reading, the impressionable and "permeable" nature of the early modern body, contemporary literary critiques and the potential eroticism immanent in language.

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
Author: S. Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137355034

In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.