John Donne's Poetry And Early Modern Visual Culture (the Apple-zimmerman Series In Early Modern Culture)

this Study Differs From Other Approaches To John Donne's Poetry In Arguing That His Verse, Already Well Served By The Insightful Close Readings Of Earlier Generations Of Scholars, Can Now Profit From Being Read In The Context Of Early Modern Cultural Experience, Specifically Its Visual Culture. It Points Out That The Focus On Visual Culture Allows For A Non-monolithic, Flexible Reading Of Donne's Verse, In Part Because It Acknowledges That While The Complexity Of His Religious Identity Has Been Well Explored, The Complexity Of His Secular Interests Has Perhaps Been Less Thoroughly Examined. Since A Study Of Early Modern Visual Culture Is Deeply Concerned With The Vicissitudes Of The Image, Both Religious And Secular, Such A Context Serves To Integrate What In Donne Sometimes Invites Polarity. The Book Uses An Approach That Is Both Interdisciplinary And New Historicist In Its Methodology. 248 p. ; 24 cm Donne and painting : the early politics -- Donne and festival : the structure of the lyrics -- Donne and London : representing representations, from spectacle to poetic discourse -- Donne and the crisis in the image : the internal made visible -- Donne and collecting : moving away from patronage Ann Hurley argues the thesis that John Donne's poetry, already well-served by the insightful close readings of earlier generations of scholars, can profit from being read in the context of early modern cultural experience