Introduction: Process and connection
Feather, flourish, and flow : the organic technology of eighteenth-century handwriting / Julie Park
The flower of ointments and early modern transcorporeality / Rebecca Laroche
The Paris Opéra as a vibrating body : feeling Pygmalion's kiss / Kevin Lambert
Gorgonick spirits : myth, figuration, and mineral vivency in the writings of Thomas Browne / Jessica Wolfe
Things with kid gloves / Lynn Festa
Vegetable loves : botanical enthrallment in seventeenth-century poetry / Miriam Jacobson
Knowing the world through Rococo ornamental prints / Michael Yonan
Fingers in the pie : baked meats, adultery, and adulteration / Diane Purkiss
Milton's hair / Jayne Lewis.