Visual rhetoric and early modern English literature / by Katherine Acheson.

  • Acheson, Katherine O., 1963-
Date:
[2013]
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Publication/Creation

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Physical description

x, 174 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: printed imagery and early modern English literature -- "The discription of the worlde": military, horticultural, and technical illustration and Andrew Marvell's Gardens' -- Truth the "way of dichotomy": dichotomous tables and John Milton's Paradise lost -- Art "speculatory ingenuity:" painting, writing, and Andrew Marvell's "Last instructions to a painter" -- Nature "surveying nature, with too nice a view": naturalistic, realistic, anatomical, and allegorical animals in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.

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    History of Medicine
    ABQ.AA5-6
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ISBN

  • 9780754662839
  • 0754662837