How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.

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'Reading Sensations in Early Modern England is a slim volume, but a valuable one...its clear argument and elegant execution make it a rewarding read.' - Erin Sullivan, Medical History

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KATHARINE A. CRAIK completed her doctoral research at Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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Book Title: Reading Sensations in Early Modern England
Authors: Katharine A. Craik
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206083
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-2192-5Published: 06 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51567-7Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-20608-3Published: 06 April 2007
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 200
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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