Early Modern Literature in History General Editors: Cedric C. Brown, Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Reading; Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex, Brighton Advisory Board: Donna Hamilton, University of Maryland; Jean Howard, University of Columbia; John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge; Richard McCoy, CUNY; Sharon Achinstein, University of Oxford Within the period 1520-1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures.

Titles include: Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (editors) ENVIRONMENT AND EMBODIMENT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Andrea Brady ENGLISH FUNERARY ELEGY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Laws in Mourning Mark Thornton Burnett CONSTRUCTING 'MONSTERS' IN SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE Jocelyn Catty WRITING RAPE, WRITING WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Unbridled Speech Dermot Cavanagh LANGUAGE AND POLITICS IN THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY PLAY Danielle Clarke and Elizabeth Clarke (editors) 'THIS DOUBLE VOICE' Gendered Writing in Early Modern England Katharine A. Craik READING SENSATIONS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND James Daybell (editor) EARLY MODERN WOMEN'S LETTER-WRITING, 1450-1700 John Dolan POETIC OCCASION FROM MILTON TO WORDSWORTH Tobias Doring PERFORMANCES OF MOURNING IN SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE Sarah M. Dunnigan EROS AND POETRY AT THE COURTS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND JAMES VI

Andrew Hadfield SHAKESPEARE, SPENSER AND THE MATTER OF BRITAIN William M. Hamlin TRAGEDY AND SCEPTICISM IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND Elizabeth Heale AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND AUTHORSHIP IN RENAISSANCE VERSE Chronicles of the Self Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham (editors) THE LAW IN SHAKESPEARE Claire Jowitt (editor) PIRATES? THE POLITICS OF PLUNDER, 1550-1650 Pauline Kiernan STAGING SHAKESPEARE AT THE NEW GLOBE Arthur F. Marotti (editor) CATHOLICISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS Jean-Christopher Mayer SHAKESPEARE'S HYBRID FAITH History, Religion and the Stage Jennifer Richards (editor) EARLY MODERN CIVIL DISCOURSES Sasha Roberts READING SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Rosalind Smith SONNETS AND THE ENGLISH WOMAN WRITER, 1560-1621 The Politics of Absence The series Early Modern Literature in History is published in association with the Renaissance Texts Research Centre at the University of Reading.

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Contents

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

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Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World Mary Floyd- Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr

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1 Spongy Brains and Material Memories John Sutton

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2 Marvell's Amazing Garden Mary Thomas Crane

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3 The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History Elizabeth D. Harvey

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4 Affective Technologies: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage Steven Mullaney

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5 Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract Katherine Rowe

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6 The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's Tme Travels, and Severed Heads Jim Egan

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7 "My Liquid Journey": The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611) David f. Baker

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Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance Gail Kern Paster

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"The Material Point of Poesy": Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie Katharine A. Craik

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Humanist Habitats; Or, "Eating Well" with Thomas More's Utopia Julian Yates

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List of Illustrations 1 Engraving from John Smith's True Travels. The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. 2 Engraving from Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities, 1611. This item is reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library. San Marino, California. 3 Hans Holbein, Hortus Conclusus. From Thomas More, Utopia (Basel, 1518). By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Acknowledgments We would like to thank all the participants of the "Inhabiting the Body/Inhabiting the World" conference (March 2004) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, especially Lorraine Daston, Steven Mullaney, Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and John Sutton. We are grateful to Darryl Gless and the College of Arts and Sciences (UNC-CH) for funding the event. We would also like to acknowledge the members of the "Ecologies of the Early Modern Body" seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference (2004), with special thanks to Carla Mazzio and Katherine Rowe for their generative contributions. We owe much to Melissa Caldwell for her accurate fact-checking and to Evan Gurney for his assistance with editorial matters. We would also like to acknowledge the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-CH for their help with publishing expenses. We are grateful for the support of the "Early Modern Literature in History" series editors, Cedric Brown and Andrew Hadfield, and for the professionalism and hard work of those at Palgrave Macmillan who so ably ushered this volume into print. Finally, Mary would like to thank Lanis, Claude, and Maddie Wilson and Garrett would like to thank Marie Hojnacki for their love, forbearance, and support.

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Notes on Contributors David J. Baker is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. He has written Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain and has co-edited British Identities and English Renaissance Literature. He is currently working on a study of literature and consumption in early modern England. Katharine A. Craik completed her doctoral research at King's College, Cambridge, and is a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Her book Reading Sensations in Early Modem England will be published in 2007. Mary Thomas Crane is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in SixteenthCentury England (1993) and Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (2000). Jim Egan is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His research focuses on colonial British-American writing and culture. Mary Floyd-Wilson is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modem Drama (2003). She has co-edited with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe Reading the Early Modem Passions (2004). She and Garrett Sullivan have also co-edited a special edition of Renaissance Drama. Elizabeth D. Harvey is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and Renaissance Texts, co-editor of Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture and, most recently, editor of Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modem Culture. She is currently completing a book on early modern medicine and literature entitled Inscrutable Organs. Steven Mullaney teaches early modern literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His chapter in this book is drawn from a work in progress, titled The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare. xi

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Gail Kem Paster is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. Recent work includes her book Humoring the Body: Emotions on the Shakespearean Stage (2004) and the anthology Reading the Early Modem Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotions, co-edited with Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd-Wilson. Tanya Pollard is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her publications include Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook (2004) and Drugs and Theater in Early Modem England (2005). She is currently writing on early modern literary genres and their debts to ancient Greece. Katherine Rowe, Professor of English at Bryn Mawr, is the author of Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern (1999) and coeditor of Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion with Gail Kern Paster and Mary Floyd-Wilson (2004). She is co-author, with Thomas Cartelli, of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (2006). Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, is author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage and Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster. Along with Mary Floyd-Wilson, he recently co-edited a special issue of Renaissance Drama focused on body and environment. John Sutton teaches philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research is on the interdisciplinary study of memory, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the history of science. Julian Yates is Associate Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at University of Delaware. He is the author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (2003).