Feeling Pleasures
The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198712947
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages402 pages
- Size 240x162x28 mm
- Weight 774 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Feeling Pleasures argues that the sense of touch assumed a new and unique importance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and that the work of major poets of the period, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton, should be read alongside these developing ideas.
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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary: each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to lose touch was to lose life itself. Alternatively, touch was seen as dangerously bodily, and too fully involved in sensual and sexual pleasures, to be of true worth. Feeling Pleasures argues that this tension came to the fore during the English Renaissance, and allowed some of the central debates of this period--surrounding the nature of human experience, of the material world, and of the relationship between the human and the divine--to proceed through discussions of touch. It also argues that the unstable status of touch was of particular import to the poetry of this period. By bringing touch to the fore in a period usually associated with the dominance of vision and optics, Joe Moshenska offers reconsiderations of major English poets, especially Edmund Spenser and John Milton, while exploring a range of spheres in which touch assumed new significance. These include theological debates surrounding relics and the Eucharist in the work of Erasmus, Thomas Cranmer and Lancelot Andrewes; the philosophical history of tickling; the touching of paintings and sculptures in a European context; faith healing and experimental science; and the early reception of Chinese medicine in England.
Moshenska, in this careful, authoritative, yet often amusing and entertaining study, sets out to offer an alternative account, where tactility retains perhaps not its primacy in the hierarchy of the senses.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Touching the Past
'A Sensible Touching, Feeling and Groping': Metaphor and Sensory Experience in the English Reformation
'The Lightest and the Largest Term': Lancelot Andrewes and the Variousness of Touch
'Attactu Nullo': Touching the Gods, from Lucretius to Shakespeare
'Feeling Pleasures': Allegory and Intimacy in the Faerie Queene
Touching the Beautiful: The Feeling of Artworks in the European Renaissance
'A Sorrow, Soft and Agreeable': Philosophies of Tickling
'Every where Environ'd, and Incessantly Touch'd': Natural Philosophies of Feeling in Seventeenth Century England
'Transported touch': The Experience of Feeling in Paradise Lost
'Like Rain falling on Sand or Hair dip'd in Water': Metaphor and the Chinese Art of Feeling
Conclusion: The Touch of the Future
