Reading sensations in early modern England / Katharine A. Craik.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

xi, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.

The word and the flesh in early modern England -- Beneath the skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the experience of English poetry -- Arming the reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the literature of choler -- 'These spots are but the letters': John Donne and the medicaments of elegy -- Eating his words: Thomas Coryat and the art of indigestion -- Touching stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the origins of English pornography.