Lithic Imagination From More to Milton

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Lady Mary Wroth, John Donne, and John Milton, amongst others.

List of contents

• Introduction: Jacob's Ladder


• I. Lithic Creations


• 1: A Lithic Chorography of England


• 2: "A Stonie Race Indeed"


• 3: "Upon this Rock": Founding England's Church


• II. Lithic Conversions


• 4: The Callous Stony Heart and Conversion


• 5: Lithic Encrustations and Embodied "Quarries of Stones"


• 6: Lithic Intimacies and Marmorization


• III. Lithic Continuum


• 7: Hewing the Human


• 8: "Not Marble, nor the gilded monuments": Sepúlchred Verse


• 9: The New Jerusalem, Geologic Election, and Lithic Afterlives in Heaven's Marble Vault

About the author

Tiffany Jo Werth (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an Professor of English at University of California, Davis. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, Reformation history, print culture, posthumanism, and the long history of environmental narratives. She is author of The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination (University of Toronto, 2019), and has published in a variety of journals. She has been a Mellon long-term fellow at the Huntington Library and currently serves as the Program Director for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Summary

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Lady Mary Wroth, John Donne, and John Milton, amongst others.

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany Jo Werth, Tiffany Jo (Associate Professor of English Werth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2024
• EAN: 9780198903963
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890396-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, History of Religion, Literary studies: poetry & poets, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean