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. |
Contents
The Biblical Heart | 25 |
William Harveys The Motion of | 61 |
Satan and Eve in Paradise Lost | 89 |
Aphra Behn Oroonoko and | 147 |
Clarissa Lovelace and Scripture | 185 |
Notes | 229 |
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Adam and Eve Adam's anatomist Anatomy angel Aphra Behn arteries beautiful Behn's Bible biblical blood body century chapter Christ Christian circumcision Clarissa context creative creatures curse death discourse divine early modern earth eighteenth-century English erotic Eve's experience fate Father female heart feminine feminized fiction Galen gender God's Gospels Harvey's heat Hell heroic Hobbes human humankind imagination Imoinda innate heat Jesus John John Milton kind king language letter libertine Lord Lovelace Lovelace's Lucretian Lucretius male heart Mary masculine Meditations Milton mind Mistress Moses Mother Midnight motion Muse narrative narrator Nature novel Old Testament Oroonoko Paradise Lost passage phallic poem poet poetic prophet Puritan rape reader recall rhetoric Richardson royal Samuel Richardson Satan says Scripture sense seventeenth-century sexual soul Spirit story thee things Thomas Creech thou thought tion vital voice William Harvey woman womb women words writing written
References to this book
The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750 Raymond Stephanson No preview available - 2004 |