The Faerie Queene


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The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology


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Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. This book demonstrates that the analogies and metaphors of literary works share coherence and consistency with anatomy textbooks.




Catalogue ... 1807-1871


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Spenser's Britomart


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The Mutabilitie Cantos


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These cantos, published posthumously, are general agreed to contain some of the finest poetry in "The Faerie Queene", and are of central importance in the study of philosophic and religious beliefs in the late sixteenth century.