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England's Helicon - Fountains in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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England's Helicon - Fountains in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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England's Helicon is about one of the most important features of
early modern gardens: the fountain. It is also a detailed study of
works by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Ben Jonson, and of an
influential Italian romance, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Fountains were "strong points" in the iconography and structure of
gardens, symbolically loaded and interpretatively dense, soliciting
the most active engagement possible from those who encountered
them. These qualities are registered and explored in their literary
counterparts.
England's Helicon is not a simple motif study of fountains in
English Renaissance literature: it is, rather, an investigation of
how each might work; of how literary fountains both inform and are
informed by real fountains in early modern literature and culture.
While its main focus remains the literature of the late sixteenth
century, England's Helicon recognizes that intertextuality and
influence can be material as well as literary. It demonstrates that
the "missing piece" needed to make sense of a passage in a play, a
poem, or a prose romance could be a fountain, a conduit, a well, or
a reflecting pool, in general or even in a specific, known garden;
it also considers portraits, textiles, jewelry, and other artifacts
depicting fountains.
Early modern English gardens and fountains are almost all lost,
but to approach them through literary texts and objects is often to
recover them in new ways. This is the double project that England's
Helicon undertakes; in so doing, it offers a new model for the
exploration of the interconnectedness of texts, images, objects and
landscapes in early modern literature and culture.
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