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Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation

Totaro, Rebecca

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismGeology

ISBN10: 1138092169
ISBN13: 9781138092167
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2017
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Meteorology 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 geocosmic 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, orgasm, 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.

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