The Erotics of Materialism : : Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics / / Jessie Hock.
In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a central role for verse in the pr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Supple Snare
- Chapter 1. Materializing the Lyric Tradition: Lucretius and the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
- Chapter 2. Poetry in a Time of War: Lucretius and Poetic Patrimony in Pierre de Ronsard’s Sonnets pour Helene and Remy Belleau’s Pierres pre´cieuses
- Chapter 3. “Like gold to aery thinness beat”: John Donne’s Materialisms
- Chapter 4. Lucy Hutchinson and the Erotic Reception of Lucretius
- Chapter 5. Lucretian Poetics and Women’s Writing in Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies
- Epilogue. This Is Our Venus
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments