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

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skept...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Robert N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Edición:First paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.