Phantasmatic Shakespeare : imagination in the age of early modern science / Suparna Roychoudhury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roychoudhury, Suparna, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science.

History.

England.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Literature and science--England--History--16th century.

Literature and science--England--History--17th century.

Science in literature.

Imagination in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Cognition in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Examines the intersection of early modern psychology and the history of science. It argues that Shakespeare was primarily interested in imagination as a cognitive rather than an aesthetic power"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance

Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets

Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost

Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy"

Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics

Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth

Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest

Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Roychoudhury, Suparna. Phantasmatic Shakespeare.

ISBN:

9781501726552

1501726552

9781501726576

1501726579

OCLC:

1028911311