Eleven essays invite us to rethink not only what constitutes an environment but also where the environment ends and selfhood begins. The essays examine the dynamic and varied mediations early modern writers posited between microcosm and macrocosm, ranging from discourses on the ecology of passions to striking examples of distributed cognition.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230593022

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Modern Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World
1 Spongy Brains and Material Memories
2 Marvell's Amazing Garden
3 The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History
4 Affective Technologies: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage
5 Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract
6 The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's Tme Travels, and Severed Heads
7 "My Liquid Journey": The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611)
8 Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance
9 "The Material Point of Poesy": Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie
10 Spelling the Body
11 Humanist Habitats; Or, "Eating Well" with Thomas More's Utopia
Index