Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson's Works

Curating Pictures
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-86528-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

The first monograph to address Ben Jonson’s thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s Works: Curating Pictures shows how Jonson placed a high value on the visual arts and the extent to which he designed his poetics around visual frames. Up until this point, scholarship has been oddly divided on these points. Addressing a wider range of evidence than previous studies, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s Works both resolves this division and explains it by surveying the influence of Catholic ideas Jonson encountered during the early part of his literary career (1598-1610) while a formal member of the Roman Church. Examining Jonson’s works alongside the writings of Catholic writers such as Thomas Palmer, Thomas Wright, Robert Southwell, and Ignatius of Loyola, this work proposes a fresh sketch of Jonson’s nuanced visual imagination, as well as suggests ways to situate his poetry within this important context.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hrdlicka, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: “Pray thee take care, that tak’st my book in hand”: Ben Jonson as Curator Chapter One: Ut Pictura Poesis: The Visual Arts and Catholic Theology in Jonson’s Works Chapter Two: Ben Jonson, Thomas Palmer, and Jesuit Spirituality: Emblematizing Nature in “To Penshurst” and “To Sir Robert Wroth” Chapter Three: The Influence of Robert Southwell on Ben Jonson’s Poetry of Love and Devotion Chapter Four: Curating Jonson’s Pictures of Lives, Deeds, and the Image of God Chapter Five: Jonson’s Metaphysical Poetry and Catholic Theology in “To Celia,” “On My First Son,” and the Portrait of Venetia Digby as Prudence Conclusion: Anxiety and Acceptance: Visual Imagination and the Senses in Bartholomew Fair, Volpone, and The Alchemist  Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Hrdlicka studied with Richard Harp at UNLV. He teaches English and Humanities at Great Basin College in Elko, NV and has published articles and book chapters on Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, the Irish Painter Jack B. Yeats, and Tolkien. His scholarship has appeared in The Arden Shakespeare, Religion and the Arts, The Ben Jonson Journal, Gale Researcher, and Norton. He is co-editor of Quidditas, a journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies