Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body.

Introduction * 'The Word and the Flesh: Writing, Recantation and the Passions in Early Modern England' * 'Kissing the Butter Dish: Reading. Romance and Dyspepsia in Coryats Crudities' * 'Beneath the Skin: Sidney, Sonneteering and the Idea of the Military Casualty' * 'The Rags of Time: Ageing and Inwardness in English Elegy' * 'Ravishing the Senses: The Rise of English Pornography' * Index Introduction * 'The Word and the Flesh: Writing, Recantation and the Passions in Early Modern England' * 'Kissing the Butter Dish: Reading. Romance and Dyspepsia in Coryats Crudities' * 'Beneath the Skin: Sidney, Sonneteering and the Idea of the Military Casualty' * 'The Rags of Time: Ageing and Inwardness in English Elegy' * 'Ravishing the Senses: The Rise of English Pornography' * Index