The Purple Island - Or: The Isle of Man

The Purple Island offers a fresh critical and editorial approach to Phineas Fletcher's allegorical epic, illuminating an often neglected seventeenth-century poem for a new readership.

About the author

Johnathan H. Pope, Ph.D. (2009), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus. He has published articles on mortalism, Shakespeare and film, Renaissance anatomy, and Francis Quarles.

Product details

• Authors: Phineas Fletcher
• Assisted by: Johnathan H Pope (Editor), Johnathan H. Pope (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2017
• EAN: 9789004328563
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32856-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Renaissance Society of America
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918