The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 Hardback
by Robert A. Erickson
Part of the New Cultural Studies series
Hardback
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In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later Samuel Richardson's Clarissa would present a no less forceful but far more feminist and heroic narrative of the heart's power.
Examining these other—and mostly English-literary, medical, religious, and philosophical texts, Erickson uncovers two ruling clusters of metaphors: one associating the heart with language, writing, and thought, the other with sex, passion, and gender.
Charting the tension between the two, he offers a brilliant new reading of one of the central symbols in Western culture.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:29/01/1997
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- ISBN:9780812233940
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:29/01/1997
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- ISBN:9780812233940
