Hristomir A. Stanev

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603-1625)

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Produktbeschreibung

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England, concerned with the impact of metropolitan culture. Drawing upon an archive of early modern dramatic and prose writings, and on recent interdisciplinary studies of sensory perception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781472424457
• ISBN-10: 147242445X
• Artikelnr.: 41852916

Autorenporträt

Hristomir A. Stanev is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: Enter the Sensory Metropolis
Chapter 2 The City and Its Theaters: A Jacobean Sensory Perspective
Chapter 3 Brothel Gustatory Competence, Suburban Bulk, and the City Devoured in
Bartholomew Fair
and
The Honest Whore
, Part One
Chapter 4 "Is't not a strange savour?": Urban Built Environment and the Odors of Restraint in
The Puritan
and
Westward Ho
Chapter 5 Visible Madness and the Invisible Discernment of Charity in
The Honest Whore
, Part One and
The Pilgrim
Chapter 6 Invasive City Noise, Alienating Talk, and the Troubles of Hearing in
Bartholomew Fair
and
Epicene
Chapter 7 "A Plague's the Purge to Cleanse a City": Harmful Touch, Rotten Breath, and Infectious Urban Strife in
Coriolanus
and
Timon of Athens
Epilogue