1st Edition
Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s Works Curating Pictures
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
Biography
Steven Hrdlicka studied with Richard Harp at UNLV. He teaches English and Humanities at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, 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
"This book, brimming with citations to other relevant scholarship, deals with an important but often-neglected topic: Ben Jonson’s poetry. While doing so, the book raises various intriguing issues, especially concerning the potential connections between that poetry and Jonson’s Catholicism and also the connections between that poetry and the visual arts."
Robert C. Evans, Senior Editor of The Ben Jonson Journal, USA
