عنوان

Poetry and vision in early modern England /

(Number (ISBN

3319710168

(Number (ISBN

3319710176

(Number (ISBN

9783319710167

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9783319710174

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3319710168

Erroneous ISBN

9783319710167

Title Proper

Poetry and vision in early modern England /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jane Partner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (XVI, 334 pages) :

Other Physical Details

36 illustrations

Series Title

Early Modern Literature in History

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Introduction -- 2. Margaret Cavendish, Vision and Fancy -- 3. The 'Infant-Ey' in the Devotional Writing of Thomas Traherne -- 4. Vision, Geometry and Truth in the Poetry of Andrew Marvell -- 5. The 'Advice to a Painter' Poems and the Politics of Visual Representation -- 6. Vision in Milton's Epic Poetry -- 7. Conclusion.

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Text of Note

This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry's own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the 'inward' life of the viewer and the 'outward' reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the 'subjective' and 'objective'. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.

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00676990

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9783319710167

International Standard Book Number

9783319710167

English poetry-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.

British literature.

Literature-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern.

Literature.

POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

POE-- 005020

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Edition

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Book number

Partner, Jane

Date of Transaction

20200823103112.0

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