The Sky in Early Modern English Literature (Record no. 105865)
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| control field | 978-1-4419-7814-1 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781441978141 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-1-4419-7814-1 |
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| Classification number | QB4 |
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| Subject category code | PG |
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| Subject category code | SCI004000 |
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| Subject category code | NAT033000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 520 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Levy, David H. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Sky in Early Modern English Literature |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by David H. Levy. |
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| Edition statement | 1. |
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| -- | Springer New York, |
| -- | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XXIX, 111 p. 21 illus., 18 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Abstract -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Chapter One: The Stella Novae of 1572 and 1604 -- Chapter Two: Comets and Meteors: A Rich Harvest from 1573 to 1607 -- Chapter Three: These Late Eclipses -- Chapter Four: Of Signs and Seasons -- Chapter Five: The Telescope in Early Modern English Literature -- Appendix: A Selection of References to the Sky in Writings from 1572 to 1620 -- Postscript -- Works cited. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | When a dissertation gets completed, the normal rule is that it is never read. By anyone. David H. Levy’s dissertation - The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620 - is different. It opens a whole new interdisciplinary field, which involves the beautiful relationship between the night sky and the works of the early modern period of English Literature. Although the sky enters into much of literature through the ages, the period involving William Shakespeare and his colleagues is particularly rich. When Shakespeare was about 8 years old, his father probably took him outside his Stratford home into their northward-facing back yard. There, father and son gazed upon the first great new star visible in the past 500 years, shining forth as brightly as Venus, and even visible in daylight. This new star, which we now know as a supernova, completely unhinged old ideas about the cosmos. Combined with a parade of bright comets, a second bright new star in 1604, and a series of eclipses, people began to look at the sky more seriously. In this book, Levy explores how the sky of that period was reflected in its literature. Levy’s ultimate goal in this book is to inspire his readers to do the same thing as their ancestors did so long ago—look at the sky and appreciate how those long-gone authors read the sky. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Linguistics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Humanities. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Arts. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Languages and Literature. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Interdisciplinary Studies. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Arts. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781441978134 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7814-1 |
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