Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England

MARY FLOYD-WILSON is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (2003) and co-editor with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe of Reading the Early Modern Passions (2004). GARRETT A. SULLIVAN, JR, is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage (1988) and Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Ma

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates Index