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Back to nature: the green and the real in the late Renaissance

Back to nature: the green and the real in the late Renaissance

Watson, Robert N

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

Hardback, Book. English.
Published Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006
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    Statement of responsibility: Robert N. Watson
    Distributor: Bristol: University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2006
    Copyright: 2006
    ISBN: 0812239059, 9780812239058
    Intended audience: Specialized.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-417) and index.
    Physical Description: viii, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Subject: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.; Nature in art.; Human ecology in literature.; Renaissance England.; Nature; Art, European 17th century.; Marvell, Andrew; Dutch Art; Pastoral literature, English History and criticism.; Dutch painting; Landscape; Renaissance; Nature in literature.; Pastoral literature; 17th century; Shakespeare, William; Pastoral poetry; Philosophy of nature in literature.