The first monograph to address Ben Jonson's thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson's Works: Curating Pictures, shows how Jonson placed a high value on the visual arts and the extent to which he designed his poetics around visual frames. Until this point, scholarship has been oddly divided on these points. Addressing a wider range of evidence than previous studies, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson's Works both resolves this division and explains it by surveying the influence of Catholic ideas Jonson encountered during the early part of his literary career (1598–1610), while he was a formal member of the Roman Church. Examining Jonson's works alongside the writings of Catholic writers such as Thomas Palmer, Thomas Wright, Robert Southwell, and Ignatius of Loyola, this work proposes a fresh sketch of Jonson's nuanced visual imagination and suggests ways to situate his poetry within this important context.
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Literary Criticism in PoetryIndex
LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Pray Thee Take Care, That Tak’st My Book in Hand”: Ben Jonson as Curator
- 1 Ut Pictura Poesis: The Visual Arts and Catholic Theology in Jonson’s Works
- 2 Ben Jonson, Thomas Palmer, and Jesuit Spirituality: Emblematizing Nature in “To Penshurst” and “To Sir Robert Wroth”
- 3 The Influence of Robert Southwell on Ben Jonson’s Poetry of Love and Devotion
- 4 Curating Jonson’s Pictures of Lives, Deeds, and the Image of God
- 5 Jonson’s Metaphysical Poetry and Catholic Theology in “To Celia,” “On My First Son,” and The Portrait of Venetia Digby as Prudence
- Conclusion: Anxiety and Acceptance: Visual Imagination and the Senses in Bartholomew Fair, Volpone, and The Alchemist
- Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index
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