Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University)

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will be of use to students, postgraduates, and scholars with interests in the history of the senses and in Renaissance and early modern literature and culture. It offers new readings of influential texts by authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, and Robert Boyle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487658
• ISBN-10: 1108487653
• Artikelnr.: 59989112

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Swann is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University. She is co-editor of Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2018), and has published essays on topics including scepticism, self-knowledge, and the divine senses. She is currently working on a new project titled Error and Ecstasy: The Ends of Knowledge in Renaissance England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'To Dream to Eat Books': of bibliophagy, bees, and literary taste
2. Anatomizing taste: practice, subjectivity, and sense in Mikrokosmographia
3. From Eve's apple to the 'Bread of Life': piety and palate in devotional literature
4. The 'Fruits of Natural knowledge': taste and the early Royal Society
5. 'Honey Secrets': erotic sweetness and epistemology
Afterword: 'The Way to Know'.