Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England by Michael C. Schoe... - 9780521630733

Bodies and Selves in Early Modern EnglandPhysiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton\nAuthor(s): Michael C. Schoenfeldt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521630733, 978-0521630733\nSynopsis\nMichael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in early modern English literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm of the period envisaged a self governed by humors, literally embodying inner emotion by locating and explaining human passion within a taxonomy of internal organs and fluids. It thus gave a profoundly material emphasis to behavioural phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies. In contrast to much work on the body which has emphasi.