Immateriality and early modern English literature : Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert / James A. Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, James A., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.

Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 433 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction: Shakespeare’s Naught

1. Immateriality and the Language of Things

PART I: BEING

2. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth’: Material and Immaterial Substance and Early Modern Ontology

3. ‘For I must nothing be’: Richard II and the Immateriality of Self

4. ‘’Tis insensible, then?’: Concept and Action in 1 Henry IV

PART II: BELIEVING

5. The Visible and the Invisible: Seeing the Earthly – Believing the Spiritual

6. ‘When thou knowest this, thou knowest’: Intention, Intuition and Temporality in Donne’s Anatomy of the World

7. ‘a brittle crazy glass’: George Herbert and the Experience of the Divine

PART III: THINKING

8. Cognition and Its Objects, or Ideas and the Substance of Spirit(s)

9. ‘Thinking makes it so’: Mind, Body and Spirit in The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing

10. ‘Neither Fish nor Flesh, nor Good Red Herring’: Phenomenality, Representation and Experience in The Tempest

Coda

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-5712-6

OCLC:

1306539447