Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Imagination and Image in Premodern Faculty Psychology
	References
Part I: The Visual Imagination
	Chapter 2: The Imagination in Distress: Amoret’s Brain and the Busyrane Factor in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book 3
		References
	Chapter 3: “If all the world could have seen’t”: Imagination and the Unseen in The Winter’s Tale
		Fantasie Is a Very Dangerous Thing
		Too Hot. Too Hot.
		Lest Your Fancy May Think Anon It Moves
		Some Spiritual Pageant
		References
	Chapter 4: The Iconoclastic Imagination: John Donne’s Metaphysical Conceits
		Introduction
		The Visual Imagination: Metaphysical Conceits
		The Iconoclastic Imagination: Metaphysical Conceits
		References
Part II: Sensory and Affective Imaginings
	Chapter 5: The Phenomenal Imagining Body in Shakespeare
		References
	Chapter 6: Infected Fancies and Penetrative Poetics in The Rape of Lucrece
		References
	Chapter 7: The “Imagination of Eating”: The Role of the Imagination in Appetite Stimulation and Suppression
		References
Part III: Artifice and the Mnemonic Imagination
	Chapter 8: Confronting Imagination in Langland, Spenser, and Bacon
		Imagining Imagination
		Confronting Imagination: Langland’s Imaginatif
		Imagination’s Work: Spenser’s Phantastes
		Imagination Rectified: Bacon’s New Atlantis
		References
	Chapter 9: The Feudal Art of Memory and the Treacherous Imagination: Coveting the Golden Phantasm in Mammon’s House of Trade
		References
	Chapter 10: Seeing God Through Spectacles: Donne’s “Engines” of the Imagination
		Donne’s Gallery of the Soul
		The Gallery of the Sermon
		References
	Chapter 11: “A Work of Fancy”: World-Making Imagination as an Art of Memory in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
		Building a Memory Theater
		The Art of Memory as the Art of Storytelling
		Embodying and Enacting Memory Theater
		Cavendish’s Ideal Courtier
		References
Part IV: Higher Imaginings
	Chapter 12: Fantasy and the Imagined Music of the Spheres in Pericles
		References
	Chapter 13: Reconciliation and Recreation at the Meeting Place for Opposites: Revisiting Donne’s Imagined Corners
		Cognition and Donne
		Virtual Communications
		Seeing and Knowing the Invisible in “Extasie”
		At the Limits of the Imagination
		Imagining the Space for Grace
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14: “I think h’as knocked his brains out”: Unhealthy Imagination in The Atheist’s Tragedy
		References
	Chapter 15: From the Image of Christ to the Imagining of the Sovereign: Donne, Hobbes, and the Eclipse of Participation and Transformation
		Donne and the Image of Christ
		Hobbes and the Imagining of God and Sovereign
		Conclusion
		References
Index