Overview
- Constructs a uniquely wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary context that reveals poetry to be a discourse in which ideas about vision from other disciplines were tested and compared
- Each chapter puts forward a substantial new reading of a single author by raising important new questions
- These analyses of individual authors fit together to give a broader picture of the importance of vision in seventeenth-century poetry
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth.
Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the ‘inward’ life of the viewer and the ‘outward’ reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jane Partner studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK. She is now a Fellow at Trinity Hall in Cambridge, UK, where she teaches a range of literary and art-historical subjects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
Authors: Jane Partner
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71017-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71016-7Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10006-3Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71017-4Published: 09 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 334
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature