The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature write by Deanna Smid. This book was released on 2017-08-28. The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature, Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, paying special attention to its effects on the body, to its influence on women, to its restraint by reason, and to its ability to create novelty. An early modern definition of imagination emerges in the work of Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, Edward Reynolds, and Margaret Cavendish. Smid explores a variety of literary texts, from Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler to Francis Quarles’s Emblems, to demonstrate the literary consequences of the early modern imagination. The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature insists that, if we are to call an early modern text “imaginative,” we must recognize the unique characteristics of early modern English imagination, in all its complexity.
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England write by Sophie Read. This book was released on 2013-01-31. Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature write by Rachel Stenner. This book was released on 2018-07-04. The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers’ manuals; William Caxton’s paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain write by Donald R. Kelley. This book was released on 1997-09-13. The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
