Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton [electronic resource] : Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah /
Sánchez, Reuben.author.
This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Editorial Notes; Chapter 1 "The Sad Prophet Jeremiah" as an Icon of Renaissance Melancholy; Part I Rembrandt's Jeremiah: Donne and Learning How to Be a Preacher; Chapter 2 "I Turne My Back to Thee, but to Receive / Corrections": Donne and the Art of Convetere in The Lamentations of Jeremy; Chapter 3 "First the Burden, and Then the Ease": Donne and the Art of Convetere in the Sermon on Lamentations 3.1 and in the Le; Part II Sluter's Jeremiah: Herbert and Learning How to Visualize the Heart
Chapter 4 "My Heart Hath Store, Write There": Writing on and in the Heart in Herbert's The TempleChapter 5 "Then Was My Heart Broken, as Was My Verse": Visualizing the Heart in The Temple; Part III Michelangelo's Jeremiah: Milton and Learning How to Be a Prophet; Chapter 6 "With New Acquist / of True Experience": The Failed Revolutionary in the Letter to Heimbach and Samson Agonistes; Chapter 7 "And Had None to Cry to, but with the Prophet, O Earth, Earth, Earth!": Style, Witnessing, and Mythmaking in Milton's
Chapter 8 "As a Burning Fire Shut Up in My Bones": From Polemic to Prophecy in The Reason of Church Government and The Readie aChapter 9 "Unapocryphall Vision": Jeremiah as Exemplary Model for Donne, Herbert, and Milton; Appendix A: Renaissance Angels and Other Melancholy Figures; Appendix B: Renaissance Images of Jeremiah; Appendix C: Renaissance Melancholy and Modern Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.
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British literature.
Fine Arts.
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Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.