Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism-blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm-early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern...
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Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism-blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm-early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience.Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Roasted in Wrath and Fire: The Ecology of the Passions in Hamlet and Othello; Chapter 2: Love Will Have Heat: Shakespeare's Maidens and the Caloric Economy; Chapter 3: Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Other Passionate Animals: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism across the Species Barrier; Chapter 4: Belching Quarrels: Male Passions and the Problem of Individuation; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Roasted in wrath and fire : the ecology of the passions in Hamlet and OthelloLove will have heat : Shakespeare's maidens and the caloric economy -- Melancholy cats, lugged bears, and other passionate animals : reading Shakespeare's psychological materialism across the species barrier -- Belching quarrels : male passions and the problem of individuation.