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Informationen zum Autor Simon Smith is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford Jackie Watson is an Associate Tutor at Birkbeck, University of London Amy Kenny is a Lecturer at University of California, Riverside Klappentext 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. The volume responds to burgeoning interest in the senses from both literary scholars and cultural historians, arguing that early modern ideas about the senses resonate significantly through texts, performances and artworks of the period, even as these art forms themselves provide invaluable suggestions about the place of the senses in early modern culture. 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.This book offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, relating works of art to particular cultural moments, as well as considering the senses collectively in various cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the act of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. Authors discussed at length include George Chapman, Sir John Davies, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare and Mary Wroth; art forms including drama, poetry, prose, music, dance, pomanders and painting are all the subject of at least one chapter. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Simon Smith, Jackie Watson and Amy KennyPart I: Tracing a sense1. Staging taste - Lucy Munro2. 'Dove like looks' and 'serpents eyes': staging visual clues and early modern aspiration - Jackie Watson3. 'Filthy groping and unclean handlings': an examination of touching moments in dance of court and courtship - Darren Royston4. 'Thou art like a punie-Barber (new come to the trade) thou pick'st our eares too deepe': barbery, ear-wax and snip-snaps - Eleanor Decamp5. Seeing smell - Holly DuganPart II: The senses in context6. Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses - Natalie K. Eschenbaum7. 'Did we lie down because it was night?': the senses of night in the 1590s - Susan Wiseman8. Love melancholy and the senses in Mary Wroth's work - Aurélie GriffinPart III: Aesthetic sensory experiences9. 'I see no instruments, nor hands that play': Antony and Cleopatra and visual musical experience - Simon Smith10. 'Gazing in hir glasse of vaineglorie': negotiating vanity - Faye Tudor11. 'Tickling the senses with sinful delight': the pleasure of reading comedies in early modern England - Hannah AugustAfterword - Farah Karim-CooperBibliographyIndex...
