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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781611472769
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 718
Weight: 1192g
Height: 166mm
Width: 244mm
Spine width: 48mm