The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

This volume seeks to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age.

About the author

KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

ANITA TRANINGER is Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universitat Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, European literature and discourses of knowledge from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, the history of gender and institutions, and the fact/fiction divide.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2018
• EAN: 9789004351844
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35184-4
• No. of pages: 492
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 998 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)