Deviceful settings : the English Renaissance emblem and its contexts : selected papers from the Third International Emblem Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993 / edited by Michael Bath and Daniel Russell.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	International Emblem Conference Pittsburgh, Pa.
Other Authors:	Bath, Michael, Russell, Daniel S.
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : AMS Press, ©1999.
Series:	AMS studies in the emblem ; no. 13. Occasional studies series (University of Pittsburgh. Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program) ; v. 6.
Subjects:	Peacham, Henry, > approximately 1576-approximately 1643? > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses. Wither, George, > 1588-1667. > Collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne > Congresses. English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Congresses. English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Illustrations > Congresses. Art and literature > England > History > Congresses. Emblem books, English > Bibliography > Congresses. Renaissance > England > Congresses. Emblems > England > Congresses. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

The emblem as a literary genre / Alastair Fowler
Jacobean authority and Peacham's manuscript emblems / Alan R. Young
Unriddling the antique / Judith Dundas
An equall, and a mutuall flame / Jane Farnsworth
Arthur Dee's hieroglyph / Lyndy Abraham
The body as a political construct / Bruce Lawson
English political prints ca. 1640-ca. 1830 / Eirwen E.C. Nicholson
Perambulating and consumable emblems / Victor Morgan
The illustrations to Ashrea, 1665 / John H. Astington
The aesthetics of magic and meaning in Edward Collier's "Still life with a volume of Wither's emblems" / Peggy Munoz Simonds.

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