Humorality in early modern art, material culture, and performance / Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Kenny, Amy, editor.

Peterson, Kaara L., editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.

Arts, Modern.

Body fluids in art.

Body fluids in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

"Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Cutlure, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period. To uncover how humoralism shapes textual, material, and aesthetic encounters for contemporary subjects in a broader sense than previous studies have pursued, the project brings together three principal areas of investigation: how the humoral body was evoked and embodied within the space of early modern stage; how the materiality of an object can be understood as constructed within humoral discourse; and how individuals' activities and pursuits can connote a specific foundational humoral basis or subjectivity. Across the book, contributors explore how diverse media and cultural practices are informed by humoralism. As a whole, the collection investigates alternative humoralities in order to illuminate early modern works of art as well as the cultural moments of their production"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Everyday humoralism / Amy Kenny and Kaara L. Peterson

Part I. Performance and embodiment. Humoural versification / Robert Stagg

Like furnace : sighing on the Shakesperean stage / Darryl Chalk

"Great annoyance to their mindes" : humours, intoxication, and addiction in English medical and moral discourses, 1550-1730 / David Clemis

Performing pain / Michael Schoenfeldt

A "dummy corpse full of bones and entrails" : staging dismemberment in the early modern playhouse / Amy Kenny

Part II. Art and material culture. Elizabeth I's mettle : metallic/medallic portraits / Kaara L. Peterson

Seeing saints in the forest of Arden : melancholic vision in As you like it / Kimberly Rhodes

Humors, fruit, and botanical art in early modern England / Amy L. Tigner

The humorality of toys and games in early modern English domestic tragedy / Ariane Balizet

Afterword

No one is ever just breathing, or a sigh is (not) just a sigh / Gail Kern Paster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Humorality in early modern art, material culture, and performance.

ISBN:

9783030776176

3030776174

OCLC:

1263805028

Publisher Number:

99992655533