John Donne's poetry and early modern visual culture
By: Ann Hollinshead Hurley.
Series: The Apple-Zimmerman series in early modern culture
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation; Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Knowledge -- Art; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Visual perception in literature; Spectacular, The, in literature; Festivals in literature
Description: Ann Hurley argues the thesis that John Donne's poetry, already well-served by the insightful close readings of earlier generations of scholars, can profit from being read in the context of early modern cultural experience.
Table of contents: title: Donne and painting : the early politics; title: Donne and festival : the structure of the lyrics; title: Donne and London : representing representations, from spectacle to poetic discourse; title: Donne and the crisis in the image : the internal made visible; title: Donne and collecting : moving away from patronage.