Title Back to nature : the green and the real in the late Renaissance / Robert N. Watson

Edition First paperback edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations Contents Ecology, epistemology, and empiricism -- Theology, semiotics, and literature -- As you liken it : simile in the forest -- Shades of green : Marvell's garden and the mowers -- Metaphysical and cavalier styles of consciousness -- The retreat of God, the passions of nature, and the objects of Dutch painting -- Nature in two dimensions : perspective and presence in Ryckaert, Vermeer, and others -- Metal and flesh in The merchant of Venice : shining substitutes and approximate values -- Thomas Traherne : the world as present Summary Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cures. The stakes, Robert N. Watson demonstrates, were huge.Shakespeare's comedies, Marvell's pastoral lyrics, Traherne's visionary Centuries, and Dutch painting all illuminate a fierce submerged debate about what love of nature has to do with perception of reality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-417) and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 14, 2016) SUBJECT Ruisdael, Jacob van 1628-1682 gnd Ryckaert, David 1612-1661 gnd Vermeer van Delft, Jan 1632-1675 gnd Englisch ... gnd (DE-588)138518394 Altkatholische Kirche der Niederlande gnd Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Nature in literature. Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism Philosophy of nature in literature. Human ecology in literature. Renaissance -- England LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern Human ecology in literature Nature in literature Pastoral literature, English Philosophy of nature in literature Renaissance Hirtendichtung Kunst Landschaftsmalerei Literatur Natur Motiv Naturnachahmung Ökologie Motiv Natuur. Letterkunde. Engels. Protestantisme. Renaissance. England England Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812204254 0812204255

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