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Anamorphosis in early modern literature : mediation and affect / Jen E. Boyle.
Van Pelt Library PR438.P47 B69 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Jennifer (Jennifer Ellen)
- Series:
- Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- Perspective in literature.
- Anamorphosis (Visual perception).
- Perception in literature.
- Literature and science.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the anamorphic image
- Chapter one: early modern anamorphosis: "practical perspective," Lucy Hutchinson's Epicurean bodies, and Thomas Hobbes' "vanishing point"
- Chapter two: John Milton and the (new) media image: affect and the anamorphic imaginary
- Chapter three: Margaret Cavendish's double perception: affective technics and biopolitical fictions
- Chapter four: the observer in Milton's garden and the body of anamorphosis
- Chapter five: projecting the modern: new perspective, the spaces of nationalism, and anamorphic territory
- Chapter six: affect and perceptual technics in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409400691
- 1409400697
- OCLC:
- 624036550
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