Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s Works
Curating Pictures
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 May 2026
- ISBN 9781032865287
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
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.
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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. 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 he was 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 and suggests ways to situate his poetry within this important context.
"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
Table of Contents:
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
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