UID:
edocfu_9958352312102883
Format:
1 online resource (448 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812204254
Content:
Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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1. Ecology, Epistemology, and Empiricism --
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2. Theology, Semiotics, and Literature --
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3. As You Liken It: Simile in the Forest --
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4. Shades of Green: Marvell’s Garden and the Mowers --
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5. Metaphysical and Cavalier Styles of Consciousness --
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6. The Retreat of God, the Passions of Nature, and the Objects of Dutch Painting --
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7. Nature in Two Dimensions: Perspective and Presence in Ryckaert, Vermeer, and Others --
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8. Metal and Flesh in The Merchant of Venice: Shining Substitutes and Approximate Values --
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9. Thomas Traherne: The World as Present --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204254
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204254
