A mirror to nature : transformations in drama and aesthetics, 1660-1732 / Rose A. Zimbardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimbardo, Rose A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--18th century--History and criticism.

Aesthetics, Modern--17th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this provocative study Rose Zimbardo examines a crucial revolution in aesthetics that took place in the late seventeenth century and that to this day dominates our response to literature. Although artists of that time continued to follow the precept ""imitate nature,"" that nature no longer corresponds to the earlier understanding of the term. What had been in essence an allegorical mode came to be a literal one.Focusing on the drama of the period as an exemplary form, Zimbardo shows how it moved from depicting a metaphysical reality of idea to portraying an inner reality of individual

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Four Stages of Dramatic Imitation, 1660-1732; 2. Imitation of Nature as Idea; 3. Imitation of Nature as ""The City Between""; 4. The Varieties of Dramatic Satire in the 1670's; 5. Nature as the Experiential Actual, 1680-1700; 6. Imitation of the Inner Arena: Sentimental, Pornographic, or Novelistic?; 7. Emulation: The Early Eighteenth Century; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [226]-242.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6498-2

OCLC:

900344729