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The View from Minerva's tower : learning and imagination in The anatomy of melancholy
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1989
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 250 pages, index, illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Burton, Robert 1577-1640; Anatomy of melancholy; 17th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Technique; Melancholy; English literature; Medicine History 17th century; Psychiatry England History 17th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389996
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The View from Minerva's tower : learning and imagination in The anatomy of melancholy
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1989
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 250 pages, index, illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Burton, Robert 1577-1640; Anatomy of melancholy; 17th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Technique; Melancholy; English literature; Medicine History 17th century; Psychiatry England History 17th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389996
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The View From Minerva's Tower. Learning and imagination in 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Presentable, clean, tight and sound copy. No inscriptions. Dust wrapper not price clipped. x + 250 pages, notes, index. For more sixteenth / seventeenth century history re politics, religion, civil war, commonwealth etc. etc. please check my listings using SL17C in Keywords search box. Postal discounts apply if ordering more than one book - please ask. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; History; ISBN: 0802026850. ISBN/EAN: 9780802026859. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24512. Seller Inventory # 24512
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The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in the Anatomy of Melancholy
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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1989
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The View From Minerva's Tower. Learning and imagination in 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'.
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The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'.
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Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1989
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Gut. X, 250 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Preface I Introduction / 1 Playing Labour: The Melancholy Physician Considers the Natural World / 1 'Mere Unconcerning Things, Matters of Fact': Physics, Zoology, Astronomy / 2 Travelling in Map and Card: Geography / 3 Barbarous Realms and Plato's Kingdom: Anthropology / 4 Repairing Nature: Physic / 5 Nature's Secrets: Magic and Astrology / 2 Melancholy and the Order of Grace / 1 Tempests of Contention and the Serenity of Charity: Reason, Belief, and Religion / 2 Melancholy: The Fall of Man / 3 The Apothecary's Shop: The Bible in The Anatomy / 4 Applied Divinity: The Anatomy as Priestly Counsel / i The Question of Genre: The Agenda of The Anatomy of Melancholy / ii The Style of Spoken Discourse / iii The Anatomy as a Sermon / iv The Great Exemplum / 3 Art: Studia Humaniora / 1 Introduction: Facts and Fictions / 2 Speculum and Spectacle: History / 3 Deuteroscopic Discourse: Myth and Poetry / 4 Poetic Forms / 5 Art and Architecture / Conclusion The Rhetorical Deployment of Learning in The Anatomy of Melancholy / Appendix 1 Burton's Geographical Authorities / Appendix 2 The Literature on China Available to Burton and Browne / Appendix 3 Direct Quotations from the Bible in The Anatomy of Melancholy / Appendix 4 Astrological Signs in the Frontispiece of The Anatomy and in the Synopses. ISBN 9780802026859 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 552. Seller Inventory # 1229223