Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance by Genevieve Guenther

Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance

Genevieve Guenther

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In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration, ' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations expl...

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