Sensible flesh : on touch in early modern culture / edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey.

1. Introduction: The "Sense of All Senses" / Elizabeth D. Harvey
2. Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch / Margaret Healy
3. "Handling Soft the Hurts": Sexual Healing and Manual Contact in Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queene, and All's Well That Ends Well / Sujata Iyengar
4. The Subject of Touch: Medical Authority in Early Modern Midwifery / Eve Keller
5. The Touching Organ: Allegory, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Skin Envelope / Elizabeth D. Harvey
6. As Long as a Swan's Neck? The Significance of the "Enlarged" Clitoris for Early Modern Anatomy / Bettina Mathes
7. New World Contacts and the Trope of the "Naked Savage" / Scott Manning Stevens
8. Noli me tangere: Colonialist Imperatives and Enclosure Acts in Early Modern England / Elizabeth Sauer and Lisa M. Smith
9. Acting with Tact: Touch and Theater in the Renaissance / Carla Mazzio
10. Living in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure / Misty G. Anderson
11. Touch in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Sensual Ethics of Architecture / Rebekah Smick
12. The Touch of the Blind Man: The Phenomenology of Vividness in Italian Renaissance Art / Jodi Cranston
13. Afterword: Touching Rhetoric / Lynn Enterline.