Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature

Jen E. Boyle is Assistant Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, USA

• Contents: Introduction: the anamorphic image; Early modern anamorphosis: ' practical perspective', Lucy Hutchinson's epicurean bodies, and Thomas Hobbes' 'vanishing point'; John Milton and the (new) media image: affect and the anamorphic imaginary; Margaret Cavendish's double perception: affective technics and biopolitical fictions; The observer in Milton's garden and the body of anamorphosis; Projecting the modern: new perspective, the spaces of nationalism, and anamorphic territory; Affect and perceptual technics in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year; Bibliography; Index.

'...a masterful study of political, philosophical, and epistemological spaces in English literature from Eikonoclastes and Leviathan to Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Ranging from 17th century Epicureanism to the invention of calculus, from early modern political theory and epistemology to baroque allegory, Boyle's monograph is intellectually adventurous.' Graham Hammill, SUNY at Buffalo, USA 'Boyle's rigorously intellectual and well-research work will appeal to readers interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and techno-science. It is also a perfect example of a monograph that every humanities PhD student should study.' Parergon 'The book’s general organization demonstrates a care for introducing, arranging, and following the development of anamorphosis from the second half of the seventeenth century to the first part of the eighteenth, and with major figures familiar to readers.' Philological Quarterly