000 02409 a2200337 4500
001 0367667363
005 20250317100407.0
008 250312042020GB eng
020 _a9780367667368
037 _bTaylor & Francis
_cGBP 43.99
_fBB
040 _a01
041 _aeng
072 7 _aDSB
_2thema
072 7 _aRNA
_2thema
072 7 _a1DDU
_2bisac
072 7 _aDSBD
_2bic
072 7 _aRNA
_2bic
072 7 _a1DBK
_2bisac
072 7 _aLIT019000
_2bisac
072 7 _aLIT004120
_2bisac
072 7 _aNAT009000
_2bisac
072 7 _aSCI042000
_2bisac
072 7 _aLIT000000
_2bisac
072 7 _a809.894
_2bisac
100 1 _aRebecca Totaro
245 1 0 _aMeteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture
_bEarthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation
250 _a1
260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20200930
300 _a172 p
520 _bMeteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides the first sustained examination of the foundational set of early modern beliefs linking meteorology and physiology. This was a relationship so intimate and, to us, poetic that we have spent centuries assuming early moderns were using figurative language when they represented the matter and motions of their bodies in meteorological terms and weather events in physiological ones. Early moderns believed they inhabited a geocentric universe in which the matter and motions constituting all sublunary things were the same and that therefore all things were compositionally and interactively related. What physically generated anger, erotic desire, and plague also generated thunder, the earthquake, and the comet. As a result, the interpretation of meteorological events, such as the 1580 earthquake in the Dover Strait, was consequential. With its radical and seemingly spontaneous shaking, an earthquake could expose inconvenient truths about the cause of matter and motion and about what, if anything, distinguishes humans from every other thing and from events. Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture reveals a need for reexamination of all representations of meteorology and physiology in the period. This reexamination begins here with a focus on the Titanic metamorphoses captured by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and the many writers responding to the 1580 earthquake.
999 _c1929
_d1929