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Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England gathers essays from prominent scholars of English Renaissance literature and history who have made substantial contributions to the study of early modern embodiment, historical phenomenology, affect, cognition, memory, and natural philosophy. It provides new interpretations of the geographic dimensions of early modern embodiment, emphasizing the transactional and dynamic aspects of the relationship between body and world.
The geographies of embodiment encompass both cognitive processes and cosmic environments, and inner emotional states as well as affective landscapes. Rather than always being territorialized onto individual bodies, ideas about early modern embodiment are varied both in their scope and in terms of their representation. Reflecting this variety, this volume offers up a range of inquiries into how early modern writers accounted for the exchanges between the microcosm and macrocosm. It engages with Gail Kern Paster's groundbreaking scholarship on embodiment, humoralism, the passions, and historical phenomenology throughout, and offers new readings of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, John Milton, and others. Contributions consider the epistemiologies of navigation and cartography, the significance of geohumoralism, the ethics of self-mastery, theories of early modern cosmology, the construction of place memory, and perceptions of an animate spirit world.
Contents
1: Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.: Introduction
2: Michael Schoenfeldt: How gardens feel: The natural history of sensation in Spenser and Milton
3: Jonathan Gil Harris: Hi mho ji kudd: The transformation of Thomas Stephens in Goa
4: Valerie Traub: Anatomy, cartography, and the new world body
5: John Sutton: Place and memory: History, cognition, phenomenology
6: Mary Thomas Crane: Meteorology, embodiment, and environment in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
7: Kristen Poole: "My hand would dissolve, or seem to melt": Poetic dissolution and Stoic cosmology
8: Julian Yates: Passions of the flock
9: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Speaking (of) faces: The gestural body in Measure for Measure
10: Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.: Sleeping in error in Spenser's Faerie Queene, book 1
11: Mary Floyd-Wilson: The habitation of airy nothings in A Midsummer Night's Dream
12: Gail Kern Paster: Afterword
