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Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. viii + 437 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-8122-3905-8.
This is a book distinguished by the degree to which its reach exceeds its grasp. In it, Watson offers a sketch of a 'Unified Field Theory of seventeenth-century English culture' (p. 140). All the various, seemingly contradictory, events--philosophical, political, religious, literary, pictorial, social--can be ordered and understood if we grasp a single analogy: 'civilization is to nature as perception is to reality' (p. 3). And since this is not...
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