Feeling Pleasures

Abstract

Introduction: Touching the Past 1. 'A Sensible Touching, Feeling and Groping': Metaphor and Sensory Experience in the English Reformation 2. 'The Lightest and the Largest Term': Lancelot Andrewes and the Variousness of Touch 3. 'Attactu Nullo': Touching the Gods, from Lucretius to Shakespeare 4. 'Feeling Pleasures': Allegory and Intimacy in the Faerie Queene 5. Touching the Beautiful: The Feeling of Artworks in the European Renaissance 6. 'A Sorrow, Soft and Agreeable': Philosophies of Tickling 7. 'Every where Environ'd, and Incessantly Touch'd': Natural Philosophies of Feeling in Seventeenth Century England 8. 'Transported touch': The Experience of Feeling in Paradise Lost 9. 'Like Rain falling on Sand or Hair dip'd in Water': Metaphor and the Chinese Art of Feeling Conclusion: The Touch of the Future

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