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The lithic imagination from More to Milton /

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This volume explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry...

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Main Author: Werth, Tiffany Jo (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Early modern literary geographies.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Themes, motives.
Stone in literature.
Stone in art.
Pierre dans la littérature.
Pierre dans l'art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction Jacob's Ladder
  • Scala Naturae: The Stone and the Ladder
  • Methodology: The Lithic Imagination and Its Hybrid Geographies
  • Morphology: Creations, Conversions, Continuum
  • PART I. LITHIC CREATIONS
  • 1 A Lithic Chorography of England
  • London Stone
  • The Stone of Scone, Fatal Marble, or Jacob's Stone
  • Stonehenge
  • 2 ""A Stonie Race Indeed''
  • Engendering: Biblical Clay and Deucalion's Seed
  • Degendering: Edmund Spenser's Iron Man
  • 3 ""Upon this Rock'': Founding England's Church
  • Jerusalem to Rome
  • Rome to London
  • Church Furniture to Printed Frontispiece
  • Henry Moore's Altar and St. Stephen Walbrook: ""A Particular Chunk of Stone''
  • PART II. LITHIC CONVERSIONS
  • Petrification and Petrosexuality
  • 4 The Callous Stony Heart and Conversion
  • Know Thyself'': Stony Spiritual and Anatomical Lessons
  • The Trying of the Heart in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Devotional Lyric
  • Hester Pulter and A Mother's Prayer
  • 5 Lithic Encrustations and Embodied ""Quarries of Stones''
  • Fitte of the Stonne'': Kidney Stones, Lithotomy, and Exterranean Minerals
  • Bezoar Stones
  • 6 Lithic Intimacies and Marmorization
  • Rocky Sex and A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Masculine Vivification: Pygmalion's Fantasy, Petrification, and the Donna Petrosa
  • Feminine Petrification: Lot's Wife, Lady Mary Wroth's ""Throne of Love,'' and Hermione in The Winter's Tale
  • Perduring Lithic Intimacies
  • PART III. LITHIC CONTINUUM
  • Petrologic Ontologies
  • 7 Hewing the Human
  • The Narcissus Effect: A ""Calleton of Whi Marbell,'' John Donne's Effigy and the Monumental Human
  • Echoing into Eternity: The Sepulchers of Christ and Merlin
  • 8 "Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments'': Seplchred Verse
  • Scripta Manent: Mosaic Tablets, Lithic Testimony, and the Emerald Tablet
  • Mineral Charisma and the Virtues of Intercessory Stones
  • Inscribing the Poetic Vault
  • 9 The New Jerusalem, Geologic Election, and Lithic Afterlives in Heaven's Marble Vault
  • Redcrosse Knight, St. John, and Geological Election in the ""New Hierusalem''
  • Retro Futurism: Transhumanism (H+) and the Silicate Cloud Afterlife of the Twenty-First Century
  • Bibliography
  • Index