Back to Nature - The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Robert N. Watson Klappentext Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, "Back to Nature" illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Zusammenfassung Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines! Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture! especially English literature! to the way urbanization! capitalism! Protestantism! colonialism! Skepticism! empiricism! and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Watson, Robert N. Watson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2007
• EAN: 9780812220223
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2022-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literature - Classics / Criticism