
The English Emblem Tradition
Volume 4: William Camden, H.G., and Otto Van Veen
University of Toronto Press
4th Edition
Will be published approx. on 26. December 1998
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-8020-4367-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of the Index Emblematicus deals with three early seventeenth-century works: Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, by William Camden; The Mirrour of Maiestie, by H.G.; and Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata. Camden's Remaines is noteworthy for using imprese in language as pictorial image; for mixing imprese with cognizance; and for considering impresa itself as the identity of the individual rather than as a general principle. H.G.'s Mirrour is remarkable in that every one of its emblems consists of a personal heraldic coat of arms of an identified statesman twinned with a pictorial engraving, motto, and epigram on an opposite page. Van Veen's Emblemata enters literary history as a volume of emblem pictures consecrated to secular love experience, encapsulating some of the conventions of the sonnet sequences and having a strong influence on religious love literature.
Each book is reproduced with critical and bibliographic introductions, translation of the poems and mottos, descriptions of the emblems, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works.
Each book is reproduced with critical and bibliographic introductions, translation of the poems and mottos, descriptions of the emblems, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works.
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Series
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 288 mm
Width: 219 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1234 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-4367-2 (9780802043672)
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Persons
Peter M. Daly is a professor emeritus in the Department of German Studies at McGill University.
Mary V. Silcox is Professor of English at McMaster University.
Mary V. Silcox is Professor of English at McMaster University.