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
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
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
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
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