Anamorphosis in early modern literature : mediation and affect /

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Author / Creator:	Boyle, Jennifer (Jennifer Ellen) author
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Description:	viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subject:	English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Perspective in literature. Anamorphosis (Visual perception) Perception in literature. Literature and science. Anamorphosis (Visual perception) English literature. English literature -- Early modern. Literature and science. Perception in literature. Perspective in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8289709

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ISBN:	9781409400691 (alk. paper) 1409400697 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the anamorphic image
Chapter one: early modern anamorphosis: "practical perspective," Lucy Hutchinson's Epicurean bodies, and Thomas Hobbes' "vanishing point"
Chapter two: John Milton and the (new) media image: affect and the anamorphic imaginary
Chapter three: Margaret Cavendish's double perception: affective technics and biopolitical fictions
Chapter four: the observer in Milton's garden and the body of anamorphosis
Chapter five: projecting the modern: new perspective, the spaces of nationalism, and anamorphic territory
Chapter six: affect and perceptual technics in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year.

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