Humoring the Body PDF book is popular Literary Criticism book written by Gail Kern Paster. The book was released by University of Chicago Press on 2010-11-15 with total hardcover pages 291. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Humoring the Body by Gail Kern Paster in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found in these b
Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and inn
Gail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation
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How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, h