The Atom in Seventeenth-Century Poetry

An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More
2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems
3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter
4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder
Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom

About the author

Cassandra Gorman

Summary

An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Cassandra Gorman
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781843845935
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-593-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)