The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750The Language of the Heart presents a study of images less concerned with the tally of external figures of nature than with the construction of human physiology—and human nature itself. It is at once a work of rigorous historicist examination and a book of immense relevance to modern readers living in a new "cardiocentric" age. |
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References to this book
The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750 Raymond Stephanson No preview available - 2004 |
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| Title | The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 New Cultural Studies |
| Author | Robert A. Erickson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0812233948, 9780812233940 |
| Length | 273 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Renaissance |
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