Charis Charalampous

Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine

The Renaissance of the Body

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the works of early modern physicians, thinkers, and writers who explored the phenomenon of the independent and intelligent body, shedding new light on historical and literary issues relating to the treatment, perception, and representation of the human body. It examines the notion of the thinking body across a range of genres, topics, and authors, including Montaigne's Essays, Spenser's allegorical poetry, Donne's metaphysical poetry, Shakespeare, and Milton. Visiting the consequences of this way of thinking about the body for contemporary philosophy, theology, and medicine, this book is essential for those studying early modern literature, cognition, and the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781138823914
• ISBN-10: 1138823910
• Artikelnr.: 42739883

Autorenporträt

Charis Charalampous is the Toby Jackman Isaac Newton Research Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Intelligent Bodies in Early Modern Philosophy, Medicine
and Literature 2. Montaigne's Corporeal Self: A Dialectics of
Bisubjectivity and its Medicinal Virtues 3. The Allegory of the Body and
the Body of Allegory in Spenser's The Faerie Queene 4. Thinking (of)
Feelings: Reaching for the Divine in Donne's Poetry 5. The Intelligent Body
on the Stage and the Wonder of Tragic Pleasure 6. Milton's Prophetic
Mission: At the Boarders of Poetry and Music 7. Epilogue: The Afterlives of
the Intelligent Body