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... early modern period . As for another theory - laden word like the ' gaze , ' it will be used simply to denote a more ... modern assumptions about sight and to demonstrate the nature and depth of the reckoning with traditional visualities ...
... early modern period . As for another theory - laden word like the ' gaze , ' it will be used simply to denote a more ... modern assumptions about sight and to demonstrate the nature and depth of the reckoning with traditional visualities ...
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... early seventeenth - century visual culture . The last relationship that needs to be considered here is that between early modern optics and reformed religion ; an issue which is particularly important since I will provide an extended ...
... early seventeenth - century visual culture . The last relationship that needs to be considered here is that between early modern optics and reformed religion ; an issue which is particularly important since I will provide an extended ...
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... early modern variants of the intran- sitive verb ' reflect ' which parallel Shakespeare's use of it in Ven . as a ... early modern texts . After all , nobody would exempt early modern literary characters or books from the 254.
... early modern variants of the intran- sitive verb ' reflect ' which parallel Shakespeare's use of it in Ven . as a ... early modern texts . After all , nobody would exempt early modern literary characters or books from the 254.
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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