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Time's purpled masquers : stars and the afterlife in Renaissance English literature

Title
Time's purpled masquers : stars and the afterlife in Renaissance English literature / Alastair Fowler.
Author
Fowler, Alastair
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996.

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Subject
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Astronomy, Renaissance, in literature
  • Immortality in literature
  • Future life in literature
  • Heaven in literature
  • Renaissance > England
  • Stars in literature
  • Death in literature
  • Figures of speech
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Histories of Heaven -- 2. Stellar Afterlives -- 3. Trumpets and Asterisms -- 4. Obelisks and Pyramids.
ISBN
0198183402 :
LCCN
gb 96051080
OCLC
  • 503428078
  • ocn503428078
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries