Time's Purpled Masquers
Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature
Alastair Fowler
Price: £54.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818340-2
Publication date: 27 June 1996
184 pages, 216x138 mm
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| - '...the book (modestly termed 'no more than an essay') is a major work, stunningly learned in art history, wonderfully subtle in literary analysis, and truly communal, drawing on a rich array of recent secondary work.' - The Review of English Studies
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| Description | | Alastair Fowler's fascinating study explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. Although the stars were important astrologically, this is at best a partial explanation for the popularity of such imagery, and the impact of astronomical discoveries (particularly their implications for stellification, or translation to the stars) is also an important
factor. Seventeenth-century culture was both religious and materialistic and the literature of the period shows a great variety of negotiated reconciliations of the two. |
Readership: Scholars and students of English Literature in general, and of Renaissance literature in particular.
| Authors, editors,
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Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh; Professor of English, University of Virginia
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