Carnal reading
Subtitle: early modern language and bodies
By: Joseph Pappa
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611490046; 9781611460053
Subjects: Books and reading; History and criticism; Erotic literature; Body and soul in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Thoughts swelled with carnosity": imagination, enthusiasm, and love; title: The passions: music, "infusion," and teenage reading habits; title: The physiological aesthetics of erotic response: intention, style, association; title: Sexy rhetoric: nice figures, or books that do it "the old grammar rule way."