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Phantasmatic Shakespeare Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare [electronic resource] : Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science / Suparna Roychoudhury.
ISBN
1501726560
9781501726569
9781501726576 (ret)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Examines the intersection of early modern psychology and the history of science. It argues that Shakespeare was primarily interested in imagination as a cognitive rather than an aesthetic power"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Literature.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Other formats
Print version: Roychoudhury, Suparna, author. Phantasmatic Shakespeare Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance
Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets
Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost
Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy"
Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics
Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth
Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest
Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.
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