Sensible flesh
on touch in early modern culture
- ISBN: 9780812218299
- Editorial: University Of Pennsylvania Museum
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: Philadelphia. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 317
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Rústica
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This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the frequently disregarded lexicons of tactility that lie behind and beneath early modern discursive constructions of eroticism, knowledge, and art. For the early moderns, touch was the earliest and most fundamental sense. Frequently aligned with bodily pleasure and sensuality, it was suspect; at the same time, it was associated with the authoritative disciplines of science and medicine, and even with religious knowledge and artistic creativity.
Ed. by Elizabeth D. Harvey
