Body, Gender, Senses: Subversive Expressions in Early Modern Art and Literature - Hardcoverby Carin Franzn (Editor), Johanna Vernqvist (Editor) The body, touch and its sensations are present, sometimes viewed in contradictory ways, both expressed, visualized, and rejected, in early modern art and literature. In seven essays moving from the 16th to the mid 18th century, and from Italy and Spain to France and Sweden, this volume explores strategies used by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists in order to create subversive