Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity (review)
literature: “The trope of the Frenchified English person, who has lost his or her own national identity in his obsession with French fashion, is common” (146). Disease, Hentschell explains, is expressed through the comportment of foreign clothing; Harris is equally interested in the relationship between commodity and disease. While the introduction works to situate the volume within broader contexts, individual essays do not always engage fully with scrutinizing the now-substantial body of scholarship on humoralism, or prior literary criticism that one might wish to find in a collection about the representation of disease in early modern England and Europe written by both literary-oriented critics and historians; however, the clear strength of Sins of the Flesh is its breadth of illustrative material and methodological approaches to “reading this disease,” which, Siena reminds us, “is a complex process” (13) indeed. KAARA L. PETERSON Miami University of Ohio