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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols God’s wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in praise of mountain splendor, of glorious heights that stirred their souls to divine ecstasy. In this very readable and fascinating study, Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.

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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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This Long Disease, My Life

Alexander Pope and the Sciences

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson,George Sebastian Rousseau

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This Long Disease, My Life

Alexander Pope and the Sciences

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson,George Sebastian Rousseau

When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to “this long disease, my life,” his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present the first medical case history of the poet. Drawing heavily upon the Correspondence for information about Pope's symptoms, they discuss the effect ill health had on his writings and the prevalence of medical themes in his works. The authors also explore Pope’s interests in astronomy (second only to his obsession with medicine), microscopy, geology, and physics and how they relate to his writings. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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140087596X

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A Reader's Guide to John Milton

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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A Reader's Guide to John Milton

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Marjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815604963

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9780815604969

Newton Demands the Muse

Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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Newton Demands the Muse

Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400878225

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9781400878222

Curiosities and Texts

The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England

By: Marjorie Swann

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The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England

By: Marjorie Swann

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812203178

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9780812203172

Academic Instincts

By: Marjorie Garber

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Academic Instincts

By: Marjorie Garber

In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.

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Princeton University Press

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1400824672

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A Reader's Guide to John Milton

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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Newton Demands the Muse

Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

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This Long Disease, My Life

Alexander Pope and the Sciences

By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson,George Sebastian Rousseau

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Alexander Pope and the Sciences

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Book's by Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

This Long Disease, My Life

This Long Disease, My Life

A Reader's Guide to John Milton

A Reader's Guide to John Milton

Newton Demands the Muse

Newton Demands the Muse

Curiosities and Texts

Curiosities and Texts

Academic Instincts

Academic Instincts

A Reader's Guide to John Milton

A Reader's Guide to John Milton

Newton Demands the Muse

Newton Demands the Muse

This Long Disease, My Life

This Long Disease, My Life

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