TY - BOOK AU - Smid,Deanna TI - The imagination in early modern English literature T2 - Costerus NS (New Series) SN - 9789004344044 AV - PR408.I5 U1 - 820.9/353 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill / Rodopi KW - Nash, Thomas, KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Brome, Richard, KW - Quarles, Francis, KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Imagination in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The Imagination Defined -- The Imagination Embodied: Brain, Body, and Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller -- The Imagination Gendered: Pregnancy and Creation in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale -- The Imagination Restrained: Fantasy and Reality in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes -- The Imagination Creative: Francis Quarles Pictures the World in Emblemes -- The Imagination…Historicized?; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature , Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, paying special attention to its effects on the body, to its influence on women, to its restraint by reason, and to its ability to create novelty. An early modern definition of imagination emerges in the work of Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, Edward Reynolds, and Margaret Cavendish. Smid explores a variety of literary texts, from Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler to Francis Quarles’s Emblems , to demonstrate the literary consequences of the early modern imagination. The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature insists that, if we are to call an early modern text “imaginative,” we must recognize the unique characteristics of early modern English imagination, in all its complexity UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004344044 ER -