The Key of Green Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture 1st Edition by Bruce R Smith ISBN 0226763781 9780226763781
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ISBN 10: 0226763781
ISBN 13: 9780226763781
Author: Bruce R. Smith
From Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster” to the “green thought in a green shade” in Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden,” the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among other things, green was the most common color of household goods, the recommended wall color against which to view paintings, the hue that was supposed to appear in alchemical processes at the moment base metal turned to gold, and the color most frequently associated with human passions of all sorts. A unique cultural history, The Key of Green considers the significance of the color in the literature, visual arts, and popular culture of early modern England.
Contending that color is a matter of both sensation and emotion, Bruce R. Smith examines Renaissance material culture—including tapestries, clothing, and stonework, among others—as well as music, theater, philosophy, and nature through the lens of sense perception and aesthetic pleasure. At the same time, Smith offers a highly sophisticated meditation on the nature of consciousness, perception, and emotion that will resonate with students and scholars of the early modern period and beyond. Like the key to a map, The Key of Green provides a guide for looking, listening, reading, and thinking that restores the aesthetic considerations to criticism that have been missing for too long.
Table of contents:
Introduction
About Green
Chapter One
Light at 500–510 Nanometers and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis of Consciousness
Chapter Two
Green Stuff
Chapter Three
Between Black and White
Chapter Four
Green Spectacles
Chapter Five
Listening for Green
Chapter Six
The Curtain between The Theatre and The Globe
Afterword
Coloring Books
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