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Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least, Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century England. 7th-century England.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Transparency and Dissimulation
• Author: Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 318
• EAN: 9783110228847
• ISBN: 311022884X
• ID: 12565759
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 673 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 170 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2010

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