Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)

Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called brainwork related to concepts of space, truth, art, and nature, and reveals their importance to poetry by Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. The genres of illustration considered in this book include military strategy and tactics, garden design, instrumentation, Bibles, scientific schema, drawing instruction, natural history, comparative anatomy, and Aesop's Fables. The argument produces unique insights into the ways in which visual rhetoric affected verbal expression, and the book develops novel methods of using printed images as evidence in the interpretation of the rich, strange, and beautiful literature of early modern England.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2013
Authors:	Katherine Acheson
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	186
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-25985-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	1-138-25985-3
Barcode:	9781138259850

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