Download or read book The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 written by Robert A. Erickson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erickson (English, U. of California-Santa Barbara) examines both scientific and romantic portrayals of the human heart in early modern English literature. After reviewing the Biblical heart, he considers William Harvey's model of a phallic pump in a feminized body, Milton's Paradise Lost, Richardson's Clarissa, Aphra Behn's Oroonoke as a women's perspective, and other works. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR