Bodies and selves in early modern England: physiology and inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton

List of illustrations Preface 1. Bodies of rule: embodiment and interiority in early modern England 2. Fortifying inwardness: Spenser's castle of moral health 3. The matter of inwardness: Shakespeare's Sonnets 4. Devotion and digestion: George Herbert's consuming subject 5. Temperance and temptation: the alimental vision in Paradise Lost Afterword Notes Index.