Natural and Artificial Bodies in Early Modern England

Auteur

Alvin Snider taught at universities in Canada, the United States, and France. He is the author of Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, USA.

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It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how 4 writers theorized bodies and objects as characters in sometimes scenarios involving human entanglements in the phenomenal world. The chapters present readings of Herrick,Cavendish and Milton, a Restoration comedy.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Silk: Robert Herrick's Upon Julia's Clothes

Chapter 2: Ice: Paradise Lost under Northern Skies

Chapter 3: Blood: Animal Transfusion

Chapter 4: Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World

Index