Time's Purpled Masquers

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Alastair Fowler

页数:171

出版时间:1996-07-18

价格:USD 115.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780198183402

图书标签:science

Alastair Fowler's fascinating study explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. Although the stars were important astrologically, this is at best a partial explanation for the popularity of such imagery, and the impact of astronomical discoveries (particularly their implications for stellification, or translation to the stars) is also an important factor. Seventeenth-century culture was both religious and materialistic and the literature of the period shows a great variety of negotiated reconciliations of the two.