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Peter Mitchell - The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology - 9781611472769 - V9781611472769
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The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

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Description for The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology Hardback. Num Pages: 718 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 168 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1189.
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

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
718
Condition
New
Number of Pages
718
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611472769
SKU
V9781611472769
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

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