Item Number: 126824 Title: Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature Author: Acheson, Katherine Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780754662839 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 186pp., 40 b&w illus. Summary: Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called “brainwork” related to concepts of space, truth, art, and nature, and reveals their importance to poetry by Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. The genres of illustration considered in this book include military strategy and tactics, garden design, instrumentation, Bibles, scientific schema, drawing instruction, natural history, comparative anatomy, and Aesop’s Fables. The argument produces unique insights into the ways in which visual rhetoric affected verbal expression, and the book develops novel methods of using printed images as evidence in the interpretation of the rich, strange, and beautiful literature of early modern England. Contents: Introduction: printed images and early modern English literature; Space: 'The discription of the worlde': military, horticultural, and technical illustration and Andrew Marvell’s Gardens; Truth: The 'way of dichotomy': dichotomous tables and John Milton’s Paradise Lost; Art: 'Speculatory ingenuity': painting, writing, and Andrew Marvell’s 'last instructions to a painter'; Nature: 'surveying Nature, with too nice a view': naturalistic, realistic, anatomical, and allegorical animals in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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