The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800 : Early Modern ‘Convents of Pleasure’ (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: touching nuns; In which Mrs Eyre protects the impressionable souls of her tender daughters; Becoming behaviour: two cases of sensational reading; Titillation and texture: the sixth sense of ’handsome handid nuns’; Of taste and tongue: ’a very slippery member’; Still small voices: sounds, sibilance and silences in early modern convents; Of smell and space: ’evaporating subjects’; Eagle-eyed nuns: envisioning vision in contemplative communities; Sensate certainty: a conclusion of sorts; Bibliography; Index.