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Reading Green in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,435
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Reading Green in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed): Leah Knight

Reading Green in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed)

Leah Knight

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Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illuminates the distinctive valences greenness possessed in early modern culture. While treating green as a panacea for anything from sore eyes to sick minds, early moderns also perceived verdure as responsive to their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with surprising powers of animation. Author Leah Knight explores the physical and figurative potentials of green as they were understood in Renaissance England, including some that foreshadow our paradoxical dependence on and sacrifice of the green world. Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticulture and herbal health care, this study explores a host of human encounters with the green world: both the impressions we make upon it and those it leaves with us. The first two chapters consider the value placed on two ways of taking green into early modern bodies and minds-by seeing it and breathing it in-while the next two address the manipulation of greenery by Orphic poets and medicinal herbalists as well as grafters and graffiti artists. A final chapter suggests that early modern modes of treating green wounds might point toward a new kind of intertextual ecology of reading and writing. Reading Green in Early Modern England mines many pages from the period - not literally but tropically, metaphorically green - that cultivate a variety of unexpected meanings of green and the atmosphere and powers it exuded in the early modern world.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Leah Knight
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-4664-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
Books > History > General
LSN: 1-4094-4664-6
Barcode: 9781409446644

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