Victoria Bladen

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life and what it meant to early modern writers who drew from its long histories in biblical, classical and folkloric contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000454819
• Artikelnr.: 62553271

Autorenporträt

Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia and has twice received a Faculty Teaching Award. Her publications include six Shakespearean text guides in the Insight (Melbourne) series, including The Merchant of Venice (2020) and Much Ado About Nothing (2019), and five co-edited volumes, including Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (2019), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2020), and a special issue of Australian Literary Studies on Afterlives of Pastoral (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Arboreal Aesthetics: The Language of Trees
2. The Garden of the Soul: George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and the Tree of
Life
3. Political Gardens: Shakespeare and the Tree of Life
4. The Tree of Life in the Country Estate: Aemilia Lanyer
5. Andrew Marvell and the Forest of the Mind
6. The Sacred Orchard: Ralph Austen and the Tree of Life
7. Conclusions