1st Edition

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation

By Rebecca Totaro Copyright 2018
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides the first sustained examination of the foundational set of early modern beliefs linking meteorology and physiology. This was a relationship so intimate and, to us, poetic that we have spent centuries assuming early moderns were using figurative language when they represented the... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. A Tale Put in for Pleasure Chapter 2. The Sneezing of the Earth Chapter 3. Much Enmoved, but Steadfast Still Persevered Chapter 4. Like an Overcharged Gun Chapter 5. These Signs Have Marked Me Extraordinary Chapter 6. These Earthquakes in Himself Afterword Index

Biography

Rebecca Totaro is a Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University.