Back to nature : the green and the real in the late Renaissance
Sweeping 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. -- Cover page 4
Print Book, English, 2008, ©2006
1st pbk. ed. 2008 View all formats and editions
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2008, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780812220223, 9780812239058, 0812220226, 0812239059
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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
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