The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

by Peter Mitchell

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This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.
  • ISBN10 1611472768
  • ISBN13 9781611472769
  • Publish Date 1 December 2007 (first published 30 November 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 718
  • Language English