The Purple Island

Or: The Isle of Man
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-32856-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

Phineas Fletcher’s epic allegorical poem The Purple Island (1633) combines anatomical and devotional perspectives on the self as the poet explores the relationship between body and soul. The titular island is figured as both body and as England, thus merging religious, corporeal, devotional, and geo-national narratives. The present critical edition offers the first fresh editorial approach to the poem in over a century and situates the poem in its historical and critical contexts. Although the poem has often been regarded as a bizarre and fragmented curiosity, Johnathan H. Pope compellingly argues in favour of a more unified reading and understanding of the text as a whole, offering a newly-annotated edition that illuminates the text for both the Fletcher specialist and newcomer alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Phineas

Pope, Johnathan H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dedication and Prefatory Poems
Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto IIII
Canto V
Canto VI
Canto VII
Canto VIII
Canto IX
Canto X
Canto XI
Canto XII
Francis Quarles, “To my deare friend, the SPENCER of this age”

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johnathan H. Pope, Ph.D. (2009), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus. He has published articles on mortalism, Shakespeare and film, Renaissance anatomy, and Francis Quarles.