Time's purpled masquers : stars and the afterlife in Renaissance English literature / Alastair Fowler.

Alastair Fowler's fascinating study describes forgotten Renaissance beliefs about stellification (an afterlife in the stars through transformation into stellar or angelic substance after death), and explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. The new...

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Main Author: Fowler, Alastair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Clarendon Press, 1996.
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