The Purple Island

Or: The Isle of Man

Phineas Fletcher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32856-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Phineas Fletcher’s epic allegorical poem The Purple Island (1633) combines anatomical and devotional perspectives on the self as the poet explores the relationship between body and soul. The titular island is figured as both body and as England, thus merging religious, corporeal, devotional, and geo-national narratives. The present critical edition offers the first fresh editorial approach to the poem in over a century and situates the poem in its historical and critical contexts. Although the poem has often been regarded as a bizarre and fragmented curiosity, Johnathan H. Pope compellingly argues in favour of a more unified reading and understanding of the text as a whole, offering a newly-annotated edition that illuminates the text for both the Fletcher specialist and newcomer alike.

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.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dedication and Prefatory Poems
Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto IIII
Canto V
Canto VI
Canto VII
Canto VIII
Canto IX
Canto X
Canto XI
Canto XII
Francis Quarles, “To my deare friend, the SPENCER of this age”

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Renaissance Society of America ; 8
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	90-04-32856-4 / 9004328564
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32856-3 / 9789004328563
Zustand	Neuware