Senses in Early Modern England, 1558–1660
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- ISBN 9780719091582
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. Examining canonical and less familiar literary works alongside early modern texts ranging from medical treatises to conduct manuals via puritan polemic and popular ballads, the collection offers a new view of the senses in early modern England.
The volume offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, each relating works of art to their cultural moments, whilst elsewhere the volume considers the senses collectively in particular cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the very acts of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. This book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, to those working in sensory studies, and to anyone interested in the art and life of early modern England.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Simon Smith is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and Junior Research Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
Jackie Watson has been an Associate Tutor at Birkbeck, University of London
Amy Kenny is a Lecturer at University of California, Riverside
