Take Five
Renaissance Literature and the Study of the Senses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9344732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia A Cahill (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1014-1030 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00656.x |
| OpenAlex | W2052473111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
In recent years scholars of various critical stripes have shown a keen interest in Renaissance literature and the study of the senses. I offer an overview of such sensory scholarship, detailing the contributions of social historians, of those who work on Renaissance allegory, and of those engaged in scholarship on faculty psychology and early modern embodiment. As I trace the contours of work by literary and cultural critics on the individual senses, I note that critical explorations of vision, the sense that many Renaissance philosophers ranked at the top of the sensory hierarchy, no longer eclipse scholarship on the other senses. Rather, work on aurality has blossomed in the past decade as scholars have investigated the history of hearing and listening and have recognized the privileged position of aurality in Renaissance sensory hierarchies. Before ending, I discuss recent discussions of smell, taste, and touch, and I suggest some ways in which recent scholarship on tactility might reinvigorate the study of Renaissance drama
Active listening · Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Art history · Drama · Linguistics · Literature · Scholarship · Taste · The Renaissance · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Visual arts · Communication · Historical and Literary Studies · Multisensory perception and integration · Philosophy · Psychology · Renaissance Literature and Culture
The measure of reality
Ramus, method, and the decay of dialogue
Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
The Idolatrous Eye
Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England
The Internal Senses in Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Philosophic Texts
The Body Embarrassed
The Vanishing
The Ambivalence of the Sense of Touch in Early Modern Prints
Scent of a Woman
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
The Senses in Late Medieval England
Making knowledge in early modern Europe
Experiences of the Deaf in Early Modern England
Renaissance self-fashioning
Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama
Spenserian Poetics
Introducing Sensory Studies
Toward a Queer Address
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |