Sensible flesh : on touch in early modern culture

Folger bibliographic ID: 184917
Folger call number: BF275 .S46 2003
Folger holdings ID: 223812

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-317) and index

Contents

Anxious and fatal contacts : taming the contagious touch / Margaret Healy -- "Handling soft the hurts" : sexual healing and manual contact in Orlando furioso, The faerie queene, and All's well that ends well / Sujata Iyengar -- The subject of touch : medical authority in early modern midwifery / Eve Keller -- The touching organ : allegory, anatomy, and the Renaissance skin envelope / Elizabeth D. Harvey -- As long as a swan's neck? : the significance of the "enlarged" clitoris for early modern anatomy / Bettina Mathes -- New world contacts and the trope of the "naked savage" / Scott Manning Stevens -- Noli me tangere : colonialist imperatives and enclosure acts in early modern England / Elizabeth Sauer and Lisa M. Smith -- Acting with tact : touch and theater in the Renaissance / Carla Mazzio -- Living in a material world : Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure / Misty G. Anderson -- Touch in the Hyperotomachia Poliphili : the sensual ethics of architecture / Rebekah Smick -- The touch of the blind man : the phenomenology of vividness in Italian Renaissance art / Jodi Cranston

Extended title: Sensible flesh : on touch in early modern culture / edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey

Touch Senses and sensation

associated with: Harvey, Elizabeth D