Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation

ISBN-13: 9780367667368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Rebecca Totaro

Opis

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides the first sustained examination of the foundational set of early modern beliefs linking meteorology and physiology. This was a relationship so intimate and, to us, poetic that we have spent centuries assuming early moderns were us

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Tale Put in for Pleasure

Chapter 2. The Sneezing of the Earth

Chapter 3. Much Enmoved, but Steadfast Still Persevered

Chapter 4. Like an Overcharged Gun

Chapter 5. These Signs Have Marked Me Extraordinary

Chapter 6. These Earthquakes in Himself

Afterword

Index

O autorze

Rebecca Totaro is a Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University.