| The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology Contributor(s): Mitchell, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611472768 ISBN-13: 9781611472769 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 821.3 |
| Physical Information: 718 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations. |