2 Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Introduction: The "Sense of All Senses" 1
4. 2 Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch 22
5. 3 "Handling Soft the Hurts": Sexual Healing and Manual Contact in Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queene, and All's Well That Ends Well 39
6. 4 The Subject of Touch: Medical Authority in Early Modern Midwifery 62
7. 5 The Touching Organ: Allegory, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Skin Envelope 81
8. 6 As Long as a Swan's Neck? The Significance of the "Enlarged" Clitoris for Early Modern Anatomy 103
9. 7 New World Contacts and the Trope of the "Naked Savage" 125
10. 8 Noli me tangere: Colonialist Imperatives and Enclosure Acts in Early Modern England 141
11. 9 Acting with Tact: Touch and Theater in the Renaissance 159
12. 10 Living in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure 187
13. 11 Touch in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Sensual Ethics of Architecture 205
14. 12 The Touch of the Blind Man: The Phenomenology of Vividness in Italian Renaissance Art 224
15. Afterword: Touching Rhetoric 243
16. Notes 255
17. Contributors 309
18. Index 313
19. Acknowledgments 319