Feeling Pleasures The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1063
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198807193
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book advances a new narrative of the importance assumed by the sense of touch from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. It rejects narratives that associate early modernity with the growing hegemony of vision, showing that touch bore intense but unstable significance throughout this period. It moves between a wide range of material and disciplines: canonical poets including Spenser and Milton, the touching of paintings and sculptures, faith healing during the Scientific Revolution, philosophical debates around tickling, and the early reception of Chinese pulse-taking techniques. It makes substantial contributions to both early modern and sensory studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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