By Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
"Transparency and Dissimulation" analyses the configurations of old neoplatonism in early glossy English texts. In taking a look heavily at poems and prose writings through authors as varied as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, final no longer least, Aphra Behn, this learn makes an attempt to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary perform in addition to to chart its transformative strength within the moving contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational clash in sixteenth- and 17th-century England.
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