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Back to nature : the green and the real in the late Renaissance / Robert N. Watson.

  • Accession number

    83428968

  • Class

    95 history and criticism/WAT

  • ISBN

    0812239059 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    viii, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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General note: Chapters 2, 3 and 8 discuss Shakespeare's The winter's tale, As you like it, and The merchant of Venice respectively, and includes Shakespeare references throughout. K-SuSCL Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-417) and index. Summary, etc: Ranging across scholarly disciplines, this work shows that urbanisation, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, empirical science and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the 17th century, and that this is crucial in understanding the artwork of the time.