Humoring the Body (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)

Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism--blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm--early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In "Humoring the Body, "Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience.
Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural histories, and major plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Paster identifies a historical phenomenology in the language of affect by reconciling the significance of the four humors as the language of embodied emotion. She urges modern readers to resist the influence of post-Cartesian abstraction and the disembodiment of human psychology lest they miss the body-mind connection that still existed for Shakespeare and his contemporaries and constrained them to think differently about how their emotions were embodied in a premodern world.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	August 2014
Authors:	Gail Kern Paster
Dimensions:	231 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	290
Edition:	2nd Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-21382-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	0-226-21382-X
Barcode:	9780226213828

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