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Time's Purpled Masquers

Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature

Alastair Fowler author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:27th Jun '96

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Alastair Fowler's fascinating study explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. Although the stars were important astrologically, this is at best a partial explanation for the popularity of such imagery, and the impact of astronomical discoveries (particularly their implications for stellification, or translation to the stars) is also an important factor. Seventeenth-century culture was both religious and materialistic and the literature of the period shows a great variety of negotiated reconciliations of the two.

...the book (modestly termed 'no more than an essay') is a major work, stunningly learned in art history, wonderfully subtle in literary analysis, and truly communal, drawing on a rich array of recent secondary work. * The Review of English Studies *

ISBN: 9780198183402

Dimensions: 224mm x 143mm x 18mm

Weight: 336g

180 pages