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.
| ISBN: | 9781403921925 |
| Publication date: | 6th April 2007 |
| Author: | Katharine A Craik |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Early Modern Literature in History |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Cultural studies Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary theory Literary studies: general |