The language of the heart, 1600-1750
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The language of the heart, 1600-1750
（The new cultural studies series）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index
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Description
In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later Samuel Richardson's Clarissa would present a no less forceful but far more feminist and heroic narrative of the heart's power. Examining these other-and mostly English-literary, medical, religious, and philosophical texts, Erickson uncovers two ruling clusters of metaphors: one associating the heart with language, writing, and thought, the other with sex, passion, and gender. Charting the tension between the two, he offers a brilliant new reading of one of the central symbols in Western culture.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing the Heart from Plato to Hobbes
1 The Biblical Heart
2 The Phallic Heart: William Harvey's The Motion of the Heart and "The Republick of Literature"
3 The Heart of Eve: Satan and Eve in Paradise Lost
4 The Generous Heart: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, and the Woman Writer
5 The Written Heart: Clarissa, Lovelace, and Scripture
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