PublishedCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Focusing on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, this book encompasses those issues...
This text offers 17 essays as an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract Renaissance Man of traditional...
PublishedPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
Contains essays that investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear. This book covers emotions spread throughout society by contemporary...
This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed `kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response...
Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy...
Providing a unique perspective on an aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as read in the works of a range...
Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy...