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