The language of the heart, 1600-1750
Emotions in literature
Body, Human, in literature
History, 17th Century
Human body in literature
History, 18th Century
Metaphor
English literature, history and criticism, 18th century
Literature and science
English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700
Cardiology
Medicine in Literature
Terminology
Heart
Intellectual life
English literature
History and criticism
History
In The Language of the Heart, the first full-scale study of the depictions of the human heart in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Robert Erickson contends that the making of the modern world coincided with the reconfiguration of gender and reveals how changes in the representation of the he…
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