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Back to nature : the green and the real in the late Renaissance

Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself
eBook, English, ©2006
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations
9780812204254, 0812204255
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Ecology, epistemology, and empiricism
Theology, semiotics, and literature
As you liken it : simile in the forest
Shades of green : Marvell's garden and the mowers
Metaphysical and cavalier styles of consciousness
The retreat of God, the passions of nature, and the objects of Dutch painting
Nature in two dimensions : perspective and presence in Ryckaert, Vermeer, and others
Metal and flesh in The merchant of Venice : shining substitutes and approximate values
Thomas Traherne : the world as present
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
In English