The Smoke of the Soul

1. Introduction
Richard Sugg

2. The Physiology of the Soul
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3. The Soul in Three Dimensions: Pietro Pomponazzi and Andreas Vesalius
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4. Aspiring Souls (I): Tamburlaine the Great
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5. Aspiring Souls (II): Dr Faustus
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6. Painful Inquisition: Body-Soul Problems in Early Modern Christianity
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7. The Differential Soul: Women, Fools and Personal Identity
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8. The Dying Soul (I): Christian Mortalism as Religious Heresy
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9. The Dying Soul (II): Mortalism as Literary Fantasy
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10. Anatomy and the Rise of the Brain
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11. Conclusion: The True Location of the Soul
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Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Theory