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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Watson, Robert N. Back to nature. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005042431 (OCoLC)61261329 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert N Watson |
ISBN: | 9780812204254 0812204255 |
OCLC Number: | 756311948 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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. |
Responsibility: | Robert N. Watson. |
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Abstract:
Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.
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- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Nature in literature.
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- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Nature dans la littérature.
- Littérature pastorale anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
- Philosophie de la nature dans la littérature.
- Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
- Renaissance -- Angleterre.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
- English literature -- Early modern.
- Pastoral literature, English.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Natuur.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Protestantisme.
- Literatur
- Natur
- Ökologie
- Englisch.