Natural and Artificial Bodies in Early Modern England: Literature, Natural Philosophy, Objects

It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how 4 writers theorized bodies and objects as characters in sometimes scenarios involving human entanglements in the phenomenal world. The chapters present readings of Herrick, Cavendish and Milton, a Restoration comedy.

Author: Alvin Snider
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781138949874

About the Author

Alvin Snider taught at universities in Canada, the United States, and France. He is the author of Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, USA.