The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology
This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.
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The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology
This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.
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The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

by Peter Mitchell
The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

by Peter Mitchell

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This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611472769
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date: 10/01/2007
Pages: 718
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Peter Mitchell is lecturer in early modern English literature at University of Wales, Lampeter.
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