Images of the Educational Traveller in Early Modern England
Images of the Educational Traveller in Early Modern England

Author: Sara Warneke

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9789004101265

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This book provides valuable new insights into the public debate over educational travel in early modern England, and examines the seven major images of the educational traveller and the fears and insecurities within English society that engendered them.

Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England

Author: Leah Knight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1351914111

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Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific and novel ways that yielded a profusion of linguistic, conceptual, metaphorical, and material intersections. Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two outstanding English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal. In-depth readings of their work are situated amid chapters that establish the broader context for the interpenetration of plants and writing in the period's cultural practices in order to illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses rarely considered in tandem today.

Pleasurable Instruction
Pleasurable Instruction

Author: Charles L Jr Batten

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520365429

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Milton and the Natural World
Milton and the Natural World

Author: Karen L. Edwards

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521017480

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Milton and the Natural World overturns prevailing critical assumptions by offering a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which the representation of Eden's plants and animals is shown to be fully cognizant of the century's new, scientific natural history. The fabulous lore of the old science is wittily debunked, and the poem embraces new imaginative and symbolic possibilities for depicting the natural world, suggested by the speculations of Milton's scientific contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn. Karen Edwards argues that Milton has represented the natural world in Paradise Lost, with its flowers and trees, insects and beasts, as a text alive with meaning and worthy of close reading.

The Authorship of Shakespeare
The Authorship of Shakespeare

Author: James G. McManaway

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 1994-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780918016256

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Folger guides provide lively, authoritative surveys of important aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English cultural history. Attractively illustrated with material from contemporary documents, the Guides are designed for the general reader and are particularly valuable as enrichment resources for courses in Renaissance history and literature.

Current Catalog
Current Catalog

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.